Enacting clause. Confirmation of Agreement between the The Atlantic Pebble Co., Ltd. CAP. XXV. An Act to confirm an Agreement with the Atlantie Pebble Co., SECTION 1. Confirmation of Agreement be- BE [PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.] SECTION 2. For twenty-five years machinery to be free of duty. E it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council, and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 1. The Agreement made between His Excellency Sir Ralph Champneys Williams, K.C.M.G., Governor of Newfoundland Government and and its Dependencies, hereinafter called "The Government," of the one part, and the Atlantic Pebble Company, Limited, incorporated under the laws of Newfoundland, hereinafter called "the Company," of the other part, and dated the ninth day of March, 1910, and forming the Schedule hereto, is hereby approved and confirmed, and every clause, matter and thing contained is hereby declared valid and binding upon the parties thereto, respectively, and every condition, provision and agreement in the said Agreement is hereby declared to be proper and lawful to be done by the said parties respectively. For 25 years machinery to 2. For a period of twenty-five years from the first day of be free of duty. May next, all machinery which cannot be made in the Colony and all sacks and sacking which may be required by the Company for use in connection with its operations shall be admitted into the Colony free of duty. SCHEDULE. THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into at St. John's, New- Schedule. Agreement. foundland, this ninth day of March, A.D. 1910, between His Excellency Sir RALPH CHAMPNEYS WILLIAMS, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Island of Newfoundland and its DeRALPH WILLIAMS, pendencies in Council, hereinafter called Governor. the Government" of the one part, and the Atlantic Pebble Company, Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Newfoundland, (hereinafter called "the Company,") of the other part; Witnesseth, as follows: 1. The Government agrees to grant to the Company for three years from the first day of May next, the exclusive right to export pebbles and beach stones from the Colony. 2. The Government agrees to grant to the Company for twenty-five years from the first day of May next the exclusive right (1) To enter upon any Crown lands situated inland within one hundred yards from high water mark (2) To take, carry away, and dispose of to its own use 3. The Company agrees to expend during the said term in actual labor in the Colony in searching for, collecting, packing and shipping pebbles and beach stones under this Agreement the following sums : (1) During the first ten years not less than ten thousand (2) During the next ten years not less than twenty Schedule. (3) During the last five years not less than twenty-five thousand dollars per annum. 4. Should the Company fail in any year to make the expenditure provided by the preceding section, all rights of the Company under this Agreement shall, immediately upon such failure, be forfeited, and this Agreement shall cease, determine and become void. 5. During the term of this Agreement all machinery which cannot be made in the Colony and all sacks and sacking imported by the Company for use in connection with its operations under this Agreement shall be admitted free of duty. 6. The Governor in Council shall have power to make regulations for the protection of public and private rights and property by preventing pebbles or beach stones from being taken, under this Agreement, in such quantities or from such places as will result in damage to public or private rights or interests. Such regulations, when published in the Royal Gazette, shall have the force and effect of law. 7 Nothing in this Agreement contained shall prejudice any rights possessed by the people of the Colony to take from the area covered by this Agreement during the term hereby granted pebbles or beach stones for ballast, paving or other use in the Colony. 8. This Agreement is subject to approval and confirmation by the Legislature of the Colony. In witness whereof, His Excellency the Governor in Council has caused the Great Seal of the Island of Newfoundland to be set hereunto, and has signed these presents, and the President of the Company has signed these presents at St. John's, aforesaid, on the day and year first above written. By His Excellency's Command, CAP. XXVI. An Act for the Confirmation of an Agreement between the [PASSED MARCH 22ND, 1910.] SECTION 1. Confirmation of Agreement between the Government and The HEREAS the Government has entered into an Agree- Preamble. pany, Limited, for certain purposes, and it is desirable to Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Enacting clause. Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: Agreement Government and Steel and Coal 1. The Agreement made between His Excellency Sir Ralph Confirmation of Champneys Williams, K.C.M G., Governor of the Island and between the its Dependencies, of the one part, and the Nova Scotia Steel The Nova Scotia and Coal Company, Limited, of the other part, dated the Co., Ltd. fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and ten, and forming the Schedule to this Act, is hereby approved and ratified, and all and singular the several clauses, provisions and conditions thereof are hereby declared to be valid and binding upon the parties thereto and each of them respectively, and all and singular the several acts, matters and things therein provided to be done or performed on the part of the said parties are hereby declared to be proper and lawful. Schedule. SCHEDULE THIS AGREEMENT, made at St. John's, in the Island of Newfoundland, this fifteenth day of February, COLONY. SEAL OF THE A. D. 1910, between His Excellency Sir RALPH CHAMPNEYS WILLIAMS, K. C. M. G., Governor of the Island of Newfoundland RALPH WILLIAMS, and its Dependencies, in Council, hereinafter called "the Government," of the one part, and the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Limited, hereinafter called "the Company," of the other part, Governor. D. MORISON, Witnesseth that the said parties hereby mutually agree as follows: 1. The Company agrees to pay to the Government seven and one-half cents upon each ton of twenty-two hundred and forty pounds of iron ore exported by the Company from Bell Island between the first day of January, A.D. 1910, and the thirty-first day of December, A.D. 1919. 2. Payment at the rate aforesaid shall be made by the Company to the Sub-Collector, or other officer of Customs, at Bell Island, for the quarters ending respectively on the last days of March, June, September and December, in each year, upon the fifteenth day of the next succeeding month. 3. During the period fixed by section 1 no other or further charge or tax shall be levied or imposed upon or in respect of said ore, and no increase shall be made in the price. of coal purchased from the Company, or from any company controlled by or merged in or with the Company, for sale or consumption in Newfoundland, unless a similar increase is |