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reasonable terms, conditions and regulations as to the locality and the manner 

 of cutting, measuring, removing, and driving the same as may from time to 

 time be imposed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council and subject also as is 

 hereinafter set forth and contained; grant to the Grantees the right to cut and 

 remove, spruce, balsam, banksian or jack pine, poplar and whitewood trees, seven 

 inches and upwards in diameter, two feet from the ground, sufficient to supply 

 the mill or mills to be erected for a period of twenty-one years from unoccupied, 

 unsold and unlocated lands of the Crown as follows : being composed of land 

 situate near the upper and lower Abitibi Lakes and along the Abitibi River, and its 

 tributaries in the District of Temiskaming, containing by admeasurement fifteen 

 hundred and sixty square miles, more or less, the outlines of which are more 

 particularly described as follows, ' that is to say : Commencing at the north-west 

 angle of the Township of Stimson, sixteen miles east of the Town of Cochrane 

 at the junction of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway with the 

 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway; thence east astronomically fifty-four miles, more 

 or less, to the interprovincial boundary line between Ontario and Quebec; thence 

 south astronomically along said boundary line forty-two miles; thence west astrono- 

 mically twenty-three and one-half miles, more or less to the south-east angle of 

 the Township of Michaud; thence continuing west astronomically along the south 

 boundary of said Township six miles to the south-west angle; thence north 

 astronomically along the west boundary of the said last-mentioned Township six 

 miles, to the south-east angle of the Township of Munro ; thence west astronomically 

 along the south boundary of said Township of Munro six miles to the south-west 

 angle thereof; thence north astronomically along the west boundary thereof six 

 miles to the south-east angle of the Township of Coulson; thence west astrono- 

 mically along the south boundary of the said Township of Coulson, and along 

 the south boundary of the Township of Wilkie, twelve and a half miles 

 more or less to the south-west angle of the latter; thence north astronomically 

 along the west boundary of the said Township of Wilkie six miles, to the south- 

 east angle of the Township of Teefy; thence west astrotnomically along the south 

 boundary of saiid Township six miles to the south-west angle thereof; thence north 

 astronomically along the west boundary of the Townships of Teefy, Edwards, 

 Mortimer and Stimson, twemty-four miles, to the place of beginning; 



Excepting and Reserving nevertheless from the above described area the 

 Townships of Warden and Milligan, the Abitibi Indian Reserve, the land covered 

 \fy the waters of Upper and Lower Abitibi Lakes, and all islands therein, the 

 right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, including station grounds, all 

 townsites, all lands heretofore patented, leased, located or applied for, in respect 

 of which such proceedings have been taken, or shall hereafter be taken, as in the 

 opinion of the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines entitles the applicant or 

 applicants to a lease or Patent for such lands; 



9. The Grantees shall pay forty cents per cord for spruce, and twenty cents per 

 cord for the other woods above mentioned, or such other prices as may from time to 

 time be fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council for such wood, but in no case 

 shall the price so to be fixed be at higher figures than the price at which the 

 general public shall be permitted to cut on other portions of the Crown domain 

 or than others similarly situated, shall be permitted to cut; 



10. The Grantees further covenant, promise and agree with the Government 

 that they will from year to year put on such a force of firerangers as the Govern- 

 ment shall consider necessary to protect the lands aforesaid from fire, and will 



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