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Hastings Saw-Mill Lease. 387\nHASTINGS SAW-MILL LEASE.\nTHIS INDENTURE made the Thirtieth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen\nhundred and sixty-five, between Joseph William Trutch, Chief Commissioner of Lands and\nWorks and Surveyor-General of British Columbia, acting on behalf of the Government thereof\nof the first part, and the British Columbia and Vancouver Island Spar, Lumber and Saw Mill\nCompany Limited, hereinafter, with their successors and assigns, called the said grantees, of the\nother part, witnesseth that in consideration of the payment already made of Fifty pounds,\nthirteen shillings and sixpence farthing, sterling (\u00a350 13s. 6-|d.), in purchase of the freehold\nthereof, a Crown grant hath already been made unto the said grantees of all that piece or parcel\nof land or ground, situate on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, forming part of the old\nGovernment Reserve there, and on the map or plan hereunto annexed, marked Saw-Mill\nClaim, Lot one hundred and ninety-six (196), Group one (1), and colored red, and containing\ntwo hundred and forty-three acres and thirty-seven perches (243ac. 37p.), be the same more\nor less; to hold the same with the appurtenances to the use of the said grantees in fee. And this\nindenture further witnessetii that in consideration of the rents, covenants and stipulations hereinafter contained, and on the part of the said grantees to be paid, observed and performed, he,\nthe said Joseph William Trutch, so acting as aforesaid, doth further grant and demise unto the\nsaid grantees, all and singular those pieces and parcels of land situate on the south side of\nEnglish Bay, the North Arm of Fraser River, at Howe Sound and Port Neville respectively,\nand containing, by estimation, five thousand two hundred and fifty-four (5,254) statute acres;\ntwo thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (2,897) statute acres; one thousand nine hundred\nand twenty (1,920) statute acres; and one thousand two hundred and eighty (1,280) statute\nacres respectively, be the same more or less, and on the map or plan hereunto annexed colored\nblue and marked A, B, C and D respectively, (except as hereinafter excepted), for the purpose\nof cutting timber and manufacturing spars and lumber and carrying on the spar and lumber\ntrade generally, but for no other purpose whatever. With full (and save as hereinafter\nexcepted) exclusive power, liberty, license and authority, to enter into and upon any part of\nthe said premises, and therefrom or from any part thereof at their discretion, to cut, take, use,\nsell or dispose of, any trees or timber thereon, together with the right, subject to the written\nsanction of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-General, as to locality,\nand the due erection of the mill as hereinafter mentioned, to select for purchase one thousand\ntwo hundred (1,200) acres of land at four shillings and two pence (4s. 2d.) per acre.\nAnd also the right, subject to such said written sanction, to select enough timber land for\nthe cutting of timber therefrom, under lease from the Crown, as shall, with the amounts of\nland hereinbefore mentioned, amount in the whole to fifteen thousand (15,000) acres, but so\nthat every and any such timber cutting lease shall be subject to all the exceptions and reservations of pre-emptive and other rights herein mentioned or referred to with respect to the\npremises secondly hereinbefore assured or described.\nAnd also to make any erections, buildings, mills, roads and improvements, and to do any\nmatters or things necessary or advantageous to the full and free exercise of the aforesaid\npowers, or any of them, and for carrying on effectively the spar, timber, lumber and saw-mill\nbusiness in or out of the said .premises.\nAnd also to take, use and divert for the general use and purposes of the proposed or any\nother saw-mill, to be established within any of the aforesaid limits, such water or waters not\nexceeding an area of ten (10) square inches, as may be deemed by such Chief Commissioner in\nwriting necessary for such purpose, but not further or otherwise, and so nevertheless that such\nuse shall not be to the prejudice of any public or existing private rights.\nExcept, and always reserved out of this lease, the right reserved or granted in favor of\nthe British Columbia Coal Mining Company, Limited, to work for coal within the land\nbordering on False Creek, making up (with the coal reserve on Burrard Inlet peninsula) in all\nsix hundred (600) acres, 388 Hastings Saw-Mill Lease. 1885\nExcept also the lot reserved in favor of James Lowther Southey.\nExcept also, and always reserved to the Crown and its assigns, the right by any writing\nunder the hand of the Governor and the Superintendent of the said Company to sanction the\nentry, use and occupation of, and also the cutting and use of so many of the trees upon any of\nthe premises hereinbefore secondly described or referred to as they may find necessary for the\nbeneficial ownership, use and occupation of any of the said ground by bona fide settlers or\npre-emptors, or (with the sanction in writing of the Governor alone) of miners of any kind, or\nfor municipal, naval, military or public purposes: Provided that in case of miners using any\nof the timber hereby demised for mining purposes, they shall, before taking the same, pay a\nreasonable compensation therefor.\nSave and except also all public and existing private rights (if any) over any part of the\npremises hereinbefore described or referred to, whether of way water, Indian reserve, or\notherwise.    .\nSubject also and at the expense of the said grantees to the survey, rectification and\nstaking out of the limits of all land in these presents assured, described or referred to by\nnotable metes and bounds upon the ground, by and to the satisfaction of the said Joseph\nWilliam Trutch, his successors in the office of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and\nSurveyor-General, or his or their agents or workmen.\nTo hold the premises hereby secondly described or assured unto and to the use of the said\ngrantees for the term of twenty-one (21) years from the date hereof, rendering therefor yearly\nto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, by four equal instalments, payable in advance on\neach of the usual quarter clays in every year during the said term, the annual rent per acre of\nsuch aforesaid land (not held in fee) one half-penny sterling, and that payable in advance at\nthe Land Office, New Westminster, without any abatement or deduction whatsoever; and the\nsaid British Columbia and Vancouver Island Spar, Lumber and Saw-Mill Company, Limited,\nhereby for themselves, their successors and assigns, covenant with the said Joseph William\nTrutch and his successors in the said office of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and\nSurveyor General, in manner following, that is to say: That the said grantees will pay the\nrent hereinbefore reserved by the instalments, at the times and in the manner hereinbefore\nmentioned, and will not assign any part of the said premises secondly hereinbefore assured or\ndescribed, without the permission in writing of the said Government first had and obtained,\nand will at all times pay all taxes and assessments (if any) which may be made, assessed or\nlevied for or in respect of any of the premises; and shall and will, within eighteen calendar\nmonths from the date hereof, erect, complete and maintain for the term as aforesaid, on the\nsite granted in fee to the said grantees as aforesaid, as a mill-site or some other portion of the\npremises hereinbefore assured or referred to, or (with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner of\nLands and Works and Surveyor-General) some other portion of the Colony of British Columbia,\na steam saw-mill capable of cutting not less than fifty thousand (50,000) feet of lumber per\ndiem, with buildings and otherwise in accordance with the prospectus hereunto annexed of the\nsaid Company; and (in order to prevent the company from holding a large tract of timber\nland idle during so long a term as twenty-one (21) years, shall and will, upon and from the\nerection and completion of the said saw-mill and appurtenances, keep and maintain the said\nmill in steady and constant work, except in case of accidents or repairs, and unless they shall\nfind it necessary in the course of trade to stop from time to time, in which case it shall be\nincumbent on them, in any stoppage or stoppages of over three (3) months in all in any one\nyear during the said term, to explain the same and shew good reason therefor, to the satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-General.\nProvided always, and it is hereby expressly agreed and declared, and these presents are\non this express condition, that if the said grantees shall fail to fulfil and observe all and singular the payments, covenants, and stipulations hereinbefore contained, and on their part to be\npaid, observed, and fulfilled, or any of them or any part thereof respectively, it shall be lawful\nfor Her Majesty, her heirs, successors and assigns, upon three (3) calendar months' notice from\nthe Government, under the hand of the said Joseph William Trutch, or other the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-General for the time being, to that effect, delivered at the New Westminster office of the said grantees, or affixed to some conspicuous part of\nthe said premises, absolutely to forfeit all the rights and privileges, whether of entering and\ncutting timber or otherwise, hereby conveyed, or so much thereof as shall be specified in that\nbehalf in any such notice (save that such notice shall not affect any of the said premises as shall\nfor the time being be held in fee), and thereupon these presents (save as last above excepted)\nand all the rights and privileges therein contained shall, so far as in accordance with such notice, cease and determine and be of none effect, any rule of law or equity to the contrary\nnotwithstanding.\nIn witness whereof the said parties hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year\nfirst above written.\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the withinN\nnamed Joseph William Trutch, in the\npresence of\n(Signed) Henry P. Pellew Crease,     V    (Signed)      Joseph W. Trutch.    [L.S.]\nAttorney-General.\n\u201e      John V. Woolsey,\nClk. Lands & Works.\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the within \\\nnamed British Columbia and Vancou- (_ By order of the Board of Directors,\nver  Island Spar, Lumber,  and Saw- (     (Signed)    H. Winfield Crace,     [L.S.]\nMill Company, Limited. ) Secretary.\n(Signed)        William D. 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