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and reefs in said lakes or rivers, together witli a road allowance one chain in 

 perpendicular width laid out on each bank of the said rivers and around the 

 shores of the said lakes. 



(c) All regular road allowances as shown on the plan aforesaid by J. W. 

 Fitzgerald, Ontario Land Surveyor, 



(d) Reserving also the right over a strip of land 100 feet wide in any and 

 all parts of the township for the purpose of constructing a pole or pipe line to 

 transmit electricity or power. 



3. The purchasers will forthwith proceed to settle and colonize the said lands 

 with bona fide occupant farmers and settlers, such settlement and colonization 

 to be effected with all reasonable despatch. And, without limiting the generality 

 of the above obligation, the purchasers guarantee that within two years from the 

 date hereof they will cause at least two thousand four hundred acres of the said 

 lands to be occupied and settled by at least sixteen bona fide farmers or settlers, 

 and that during each succeeding period of one year thereafter, for a period of 

 nineteen years, they will cause at least two thousand four hundred additional 

 acres of the said lands to be occupied and settled by at least sixteen additional 

 bona fide farmers and settlers. Such farmers and settlers to be such and the 

 occupation and settlement work by them to he such as to satisfy requirements 

 similar to the present requirements in like case of the Free Grant and Homestead 

 Act and the regulations thereunder. In computing the number of farmers and 

 settlers occupying and settling and the acreage occupied and settled by them 

 from year to year as aforesaid any excess or deficiency of numbers or acreage in 

 any year shall be carried forward to the credit or debit, as the case may be of 

 the year following, and so from year to year, and where in the case of any farmer 

 or settler previously credited his occupation and settlement subsequently fails tb 

 be such as to satisfy the provisions 'of this clause the deficiency so arising in 

 numbers and acreage shall be forthwith chargeable against the year then current 

 and succeeding years. Provided always that the purchasers shall not be deemed 

 to be in default under the terms of this clause, so far as relating to specific numbers 

 and acreage guaranteed from year to year, unless and until the deficiency in 

 question has failed to be rectified in subsequent balances within at least two 

 years, but this proviso shall not apply to any failure to meet the obligations of 

 this clause as regards at least five settlers and a proportionate acreage in the 

 first period of two years or as regards at least five settlers and a proportionate 

 acreage in the second period of one year. 



4. If and as requested by the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines for the 

 Province of Ontario, hereafter in this agreement referred to as the Minister, the 

 purchasers •will improve portions of the said lands as farms, in each case by 

 clearing and preparing for cultivation such area thereof as the Minister may 

 designate, not exceeding twenty-five acres, and by building a house and barn 

 thereon of such size and character as the Minister may prescrihe, not exceeding 

 in cost one thousand dollars, and by digging a well or otherwise as the Minister 

 may prescribe, and shall offer such farms for sale at prices and upon terms to be 

 approved of by the Minister. 



5. The purchasers will at their own expense, as directed by, in a manner 

 approved of by and to the satisfaction of the Minister, construct, build and for a 

 reasonable period maintain all roads, bridges or other road improvement? in the 

 said Townships of Kendrey and Haggart, as such construction, building and 

 maintenance may from time to time be required in the interest of said settlors. 



