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PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. TORONTO. WARWICK BROS & RUTTER, 1 hintkhs, &c., 68 and 70 Fbont St. Wist. 1899. AGREEMENT. This agreement made in duplicate this sixth day of October, in the year of oar Lord H^Votah'l^'^thTp '""•'"'^ and ninety oight, between Her Maesty, represented by tS calZ "ThVrin '!T'';1^'°^''^'°^^ 'or the Province of Ontario, hereinafter ?Sf« J (Government." of the one part, and The Sturgeon FalU Pulp Company Limited), t joint stock company duly incorporated in England under the provisos df Xpart*"'' ^^^^ ""^ ^^^^ """^ hereinafter ctlled" The Company.'' 0? the aimS?'^'*''*''^°''°T?y." °°'' '° ^'■^''ty ^'th The Sturgeon Falls Pulp Company laZ ?V V^^if ""^ ^^^^ incorporated in Ontario under the Ontario Joint Stock Com fhe nla^t „,r?.'l ^T^r.°^ '^' ^"'1 "!." '""^ machinery, lands and premises and a" the plant, materia , stock of pulp wood and other assets of the said Ontario Company in Ssstr,-''!*^-''' P'J'P manufacturing business at Sturgeon Falls, in tlSTct of i^ «lf «n r ?°* ''**'•'" P^Y"'' ^^'^ ''^'^"^^ *° «^P«°d » considerable amount of clpita in extending and improving the said mill property, machinery and plant and the said heT.? *V- V^'a"* '^^' '^'- ^""^ «^"" '" *^« '°t«'-« ^^^ "^f^e- the saTd purchase Jls been earned -nto efieot be carried on by and in the name of the Company. vicinUy oftiurlZ*„'' F?rT^ ^-T""" \° °.'"^''"°*' '*1°'P «"»"* «P«™*« *" "^ i'" the mSLf ?t°'p°° Falls aforesaid an extensive paper mill in connection with its pulp vince^foIurrtVi'riSr.P'^^.'? ^''•'■°^' °' °^*^'°'°8 '■"""^ *^« Government of the Pro- DuTand o^Lp™/^^ "''* ^'■''"2 *°.'' °P'"' °"'**'° ^™^° l»°d« o* the Provinne such pulp and other wood as is necessary for its use in the carrying on of the said eaterorisea and in manufacturing pulp and paper a'nd any other commodity which can be manur m.v iinTf '°°'* ''°"'^! "' ^^^ '""'^ ""^ ^^""^ ** ^°y °ther mill or mills which the " mpa^y may find it necessary to construct, buy, lease or operate in connection with its buSss^ an«fi tvll n""^*^ **■" ^S'^^T?* '' ^''*"*"^ '"'^^ ^°'" *he purpose of ensuring the perform- Zt ^^?!- P''"^ ° Its obligations as hereinafter defined and of securing to the Com- iSo th« hT '"PP'^ of. ^°od for the purpose of its business upon the tfrms and sub- ject to the conditions and stipulations hereinafter contained. that S'sajr^"''^' '* " "^'^^ *''^''^'° **"' Company and the Government as follows, eressUm ^th?3°r( '^" *°'*^'''"' P?'f '^ *° "^^^ ^'^*° «««°* the purchase now in pro- gress from the said Ontario company of the property at Sturgeon Falls beine the nnln Du i 1?; Tf "S'''^' *'""^'^?; -aohiuery.'stock In trade, plant, impUrnl.at^^^^^ palp wood and landP, and generally the assets of the said companJ usSd in connection with Its present pulp manufacturing business, and when so required wUl duly operate Us^orerationr ^rf ''TJ> '"^ '°T "'" ^°°*''^"^ '' operate'the same and7ilKnd Its operations from time to time as demanded by the exigencies of its business and so that the same will be worked to at least the capacity of 5,000 tons of pulp per annum 2. The Company will also with all convenient dispatch proceed to the cons' ruction of a paper mill at or near Sturgeon FaUs aforesaid or in the Vicinity of tho wa Js of the l^.^T,r"" "f T " thoroughly equip the same so that the expenditu e of the Com! SrdoJ Von ''f^'^ ^f' equipment of the Baid paper mill will be at least the sum^ of Jl.OOO 000. and will operate the same so that at least 30.000 tons of paper will be mrnu factured annually, and at least 240 hands on an average continuously emnToved in Pon uection therewith. Of the said sum of $1,000,000 not iL S &0,OoWai; have [3] bpen expended at the expiration of 18 months from the date hereof and not leas than liiOO.OOO at the expiration of two years from the date hereof and the balance before the expiration of three years from the date hereof. 3. In consideration of the said purchase from the Ontario company and of the expenditure in the last preceding paragraph set forth the Government will grant to the company for use in their said business the right for a period of 21 years from the date hereof to cut and remove spruce, poplar, tamarac and banksian or jackpine and hardwoods BIX inches and upwards in diameter to enable the said Company to work the said pulp and paper mills and extensions thereof to tl ir full capacity from the time when the Company commences cutting under this contract from the lands of the Crown which may be at any time unoccupied, unlocated or unsold along the Sturgeon river in the district of Nipissing and along its extensions or tributaries to a straight line drawn duo east and west aoroea Lake Temagaming immediately south of Bear Island and produced in a straight line easterly from the shore of the said lake and the said line following on the west side of the said lake the watershed of the said Sturgeon and its tributaries (the in- tention being that no cutting shall take place on the west shore of Lake Temagaming nor on streams flowing into Lake Temagaming north of the intersection of the shore of said lake by the said straight line) and along all tribnturies of the said river and extensions thereof which fall into the said river and its extensions south of the said lines for a dis- tance extending back from the shores thereof of five miles except as to islands in Lake Temagaming on which no cutting is to take place and which are to be exempt from the terms of this agreement for the rates and prices hereinafter set forth and provided and subject to such reasonable terras, conditions and regulations as to the cutting, removing and driving of the same as may from time to time bii imposed bv the Lieutenant-Governor m Council and subject also as is hereinafter set forth and contained. 4. The Company may select and delimit or set out 75 square miles of unoccupied and unlicensed public land from and in said territory, upon wTiich is to be found the woods aforesaid, but in such a way that merely patches of land covered specially by spruce shall not be particularly selected. ^ 5. The Government will from time to time, and as occasion may require, grant per- mits to the Company to cut elsewhere within the said territory than on the said 75 miles, at places to be agreed u[)on between the Company and the Government, or the agent ap- pointed by the Government for that purpose, so many cords of the said woods as may be necessary to keep the mills running, less the amount which may be taken from the said 75 miles, which latter shall not be less in any one year than the one twenty-first part of the entire quantity required for the year for the use of the said mills and the rates and prices payable in respect of the cutting upon the territory outside the said 75 miles shall be the same as the rates and prices in respect of the cutting on such reservation. 6. The Company shall pay 20 cents per cord of 128 cubic feet for spruce and hard- wood and 10 cents per cord of 128 cubic feet for the other woods above mentioned, or such other prices as may from time to time be fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun- cil for such wood, but in no case shall the price so to bo fixed be at higher figures than the price at which the general public shall bo permitted to cut on other portions of the Crown domain or than others similarly situated shall be permitted to cut. 7. No wood shall be cut under this agreement until after the property so to be pur- chased from the Ontario company shall have been acquired and paid for, but the cutting wood for the use of the said pulp mill so being purchased from the Ontario company may begin as soon as the said purchase has been carried into effect. V II ^' -7^^ Crown may revoke the right, license or permit to cut whenever the Company shall fail to comply with the terms of this agreement. I I 9. It Is distinctly understood and agreed that only the right to out wood as afore- said is sold to the Company, and not the soil or any part thereof, nor is any interest in the soil so sold except in so far as may be necessary to out and remove the woods as afore- said, and the wood when so cut Bhall (subject to the payment of the price thereof) become the absolute property of the Oompany. 10. This concession is not to impede or retard settlement by actual bona fide settlers who shall have obtained the right from the Crown Lands Department to settle thereon in the usual manner. 11. Nothing herein contaired or to be done hereunder or by virtae hereof shal entitle the Company to a monopoly in the use of the said river or its tributaries, but the shall be and continue open for the use of the public in accordance with the law in that behalf. But in view of the character of the industry to be established, the investment of so large an amount of capital and the probable enlargement of the industry in the near future it is understood that the Government will not grant, sell to or confer upon any other person or persons, corporation or corporations the right to cut pulp-wood within the territory hereinbefore referred to for the purpose of export before being manufactured into pulp or the right cut to pulp-wood within or upon the said territory, ihe granting of which rights would in the opinion of the Oommiasioner of Crown Lands for the time being have the effect of so far lessening or diminishing the supply of pulp- wood in the said territory during the period covered by this agreement and which under this agreement will be available for the making of pulp by the Company as to the prejudicially interfere with the Company during that pfriod in obtaining all the pulp-wood necessary for supply- ing the said milln and any extensions thereof that may be made in the meantime or extensions which may be under construction and bona fide in process of completion, but nothing this paragraph or in this agreement shall prevent the sale or location to actual settlers of any part of said lands in the usual manner. 12. It is distinctly understood and agreed that nothing herein contained shall with' out the consent in writing of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Ontario be deemed to confer any right to cut or remove timber from any territory or areas already under license from the Crown or which may hereafter be placed under license for the cutting of pine timber nor shall any cutting take place under this agreement in or in the immedia*e proximity of territory covered with green merchantable pine available for lumbering pur- poses or which may be considered by the Government to be pine-bearing lands. If, however, the wood in the other parts of the available territory har -^n exhausted or is insufficient for the requirements of the Company's mills, the Cont >aay may cut in tho vicinity of such pine-bearing lands upon such terms and condition as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government and the Company or if they cannot come to an agreement then upon such terms, conditions and regulations as may from time to time be made or imposed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council or by the Commissioner of Grown Lands for the purpose of affording ample protection to the standing pine. Provided, however, and it is understood and agreed that the Company shall not be entitled to cut wood of any kind on said territory or on any part thereof for the purposes of export in the wood nor for sale to other persons for export in the wood. Provided further, that there shall be no limitation other than as to export and size of wood of the right of the company to cut or remove pulp- wood from the seventy-five square miles hereinbefore referrovl to, after tho same shall have been delimited and set apart. 13. It is hereby agreed that nothing in this agreement contained shall prevent the Government from selling the right to any person or persons to cut the pine trees on any part of the territory hereinbefore rofintioned which has not already been placed under license, and to grant timber licenses in respect thereof under the statutes and regulations in that behalf, and in no case shall the company be entitled to cut the pine trees other than banksian pine unless under special permit or license from the Government or the ^he p.ne trees onl, and to Buch other timber aa .ay be neiasary to'cut" anj ^e't^e n^.Ju ^^°***'°8 •>«'«'" contained aha]! require the Government to provide anv narticnkr Lr. )f ^°°'l.a« *he Government in no case guarantees quantSrordo^^auytynl more than grant the right to cut such wood aa afofeaaid within the TforeaaiSTiS and ^f wond 7 '°"'r°''' "•'"" ••**1""« '^' company to purchase any particlr qultuj of wood, or to pay for any wood not actually out ujon the .aid territory but ft isTarv cTennXjry r mirof'the"?)" *'^ T'^-'" T' T"" ^•'"S'ter" itor^iS itsBupplyT^odtheSrom '^°"'*"^ '""° "'"^^'^ '°' *^« ^^^'f^-y -» »»J^« : l\re wSlZffit^^E *'^*;^"'^ T'^ P-r- »^"' - farrtheTamta'nte o7nd f »,r JL W*" « ^""P/^y «^''" °ot complete its purchase from the Ontario comnanv within 17. Settlement shall be made with the Government at the close of each seMon «# c°utT h?rr *^' P"r n*. *^ "^•°'' ■="' "P '' '""^^ *'-^' -'^ •» correct ace unt of an wood ul^ *he Company shall be kept in the books of th3 Company in such manner as the Zu ilt?mrh''°.-.?^ ""'''• '•^"" provide, and to which the otficers ofThe own ahal?at all t.mea be entitled to access, and returns shall from time to time be m»de under nLh hereinbefore a ated or in default of the said Company keeping the said ^^1 running alS' hrn'"*""* '^''''^ "°^ ^^^P'°g '^^ requLd numbe? of menSodasSe said, the Government may refuse to permit the continuance of the cutting^of ?L sa'd nr JnlLTS^ Company covenants with Her Majesty that it shall and will not at any time or in any place deposit, empty, run or turn into or permit to br« placed, deposited emnt T run or turned mto any river, stream or other wate'rs whatsoever, reful.Twdust cheml: cals or matter of any other kind which will have the effect of deetro^inTharmbror driving away the fish in such river, stream or water. ««"oying, narming or I, V i^^"*T?" *S''eement is now executed by Ernest A. Bremner. of T.r^ndnn Png^nd n Company under its corporate seal and by the hand of the proper officers thereof wfthin mlntT-']' at'tr '*"."''""^*°" ^y *i"' Oov.,rn.„ent and by the said Bremner, the Govern- ment may at its option revoke and cancel tho same. u nl^" ^J'^"''^''^ *''" expnmsion " The Company " shall occur in this aeroement it ahall be anderitood to include the succeBsora and aesignB of the Company *«™°"'°*' " ttve ALIbly**""°"°' " *"°''''''*'°'*' °"'y "°*" ''PP™^^'^ ^y resolution of the Legisla- and«Iil''»n7f'h.7'""''"' ^^l Oommissionorof Grown Lands has hereunto set his hand sTeoreWy """'^""^ ' ''* "' °°'"P°'''*^' ''■*' ^"^^ '^« '•''°«* °' >^ Chairman and Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence (Sgd) AunRRY Wmitr. I (Sgd) J. M. Gibson, (Sgd) Ernbst a. Bbkmnkr, Signed, sealed and delivered by the above » named Ernest A. Bromner in the pro- '■ (>enoe of j (Sgd) H. GiLMOUR CAMPION, Solicitor, London, England. The common seal of the Sturgeon Falls Pulp "J Company, Liinitet', was on the 218'; ( day of October, 1898, hereunto affixed ( in the presence of \ (Sgd) Maurrb Horhrr, Chairman. (Sgd) R. W. Marohant, Secretary. [Seal.] [Seal.] [Seal. J