Colony and whose bed belongs to the Crown, for the purpose of recovering any valuable mineral therefrom. Every such lease shall provide for the payment of an annual rental of ten dollars per lineal mile of any such river or stream and shall contain such provisions and conditions as may be required by the Governor in Council for protecting all other public rights and interests in such river or stream, including the driving of logs and timber and navigation No lease shall be granted to any person for a greater extent of river or stream than ten lineal miles. of water powers 2. Whenever the owner or lessee of a water power or any Respecting the acquiring of person or corporation engaged in lumbering, or in the manu- rights by holders facture of lumber or pulp, shall be desirous of acquiring any and others. right of way or other right or easement over private property which shall be necessary for the development of such water power or for connecting the place where such water. power is being developed with any other place or places or for any other purpose connected with the development or operation of the said water power or industry and shall be unable to make an agreement with the owner of such property for leave to enter thereon or for such rights of way or other easements as shall be necessary as aforesaid and for the payment of compensation for any damage which may be occasioned to such property, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to permit such rights to be acquired and the question of the necessity and expediency of the acquisition of such rights and of the amount of compensation (if any) to be awarded in respect of such damage shall be determined by arbitration in accordance with and subject in all respects to the provisions of section 55 of "The Crown Lands' Act, 1903." Preamble. Enacting clausc. Respecting the filing of claims discovery of minerals. SECTION CAP. XXI. An Act Respecting the Discovery of Minerals. 1. Respecting the filing of claims W [PASSED MARCH 22ND, 1910.] SECTION 2. Bonus of $1,000 to be paid to discoverer on development of mine. WHEREAS it is desirable that the original discoverers of minerals in the Colony be rewarded from the funds of the Colony. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legisiative Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for any person who shall make any for the original discovery of minerals in this Colony, at the time of making application for a license for the same or without making any such application, to file in the office of the Minister of Agriculture and Mines a claim in writing, verified by affidavit, setting forth that he is the first and original discoverer of such mineral, what said mineral is, and as accurately as possible the situation of the deposit. The Minister of Agricul ture and Mines, immediately upon the filing of such claim, shall give public notice in the Royal Gazette and one other newspaper setting forth briefly the facts contained in said claim and the name of the claimant, and calling upon all persons who may dispute such claimant's right as first or original discoverer to give notice to his Department of any objection thereto within sixty days thereafter. If at the expiration of the said period of sixty days no such objections are received at the Department, the claimant shall be deemed to be the true first and original discoverer, and his name and the location of his discovery shall be registered in gister of Mineral Discoveries." If any such objections are received at the said Department, then immediately upon the expiration of the said period of sixty days, the Minister shall summon all parties making such objections, and the claimant by notice in writing to appear before him, and after hearing such of the said parties as shall appear in obedience to said summons, either separately or together, shall report thereon to the Governor in Council, who shall determine who is the true first or original discoverer and cause his name and the location of the discovery to be registered in manner aforesaid. The decision of the Governor in Council shall be final. to be paid to 2. If any time thereafter any such location shall be Bonus of $1,000 developed or operated, the person registered as the true discoverer on development first or original discoverer thereof shall be entitled to reof mine. ceive and shall receive from the funds of the Colony the sum of one thousand dollars; provided that no such location shall be held to be developed or operated unless at least fifty men shall have been continuously employed in actual mining thereon for a period of at least one year. And provided also that such discoverer shall not be deprived of any of the rights herein conferred by reason only that any such discovery is made upon private lands: Preamble. Enacting clause. Smelters for Copper to be free of duty. on smelted copper. SECTION CAP. XXII. An Act Respecting the Smelting of Copper Ores 1. Smelters for Copper to be free 2. Respecting payment of a bounty W [PASSED MARCH 22ND, 1910.] SECTION 3. Expenditure on smelting works to be treated as expenditure in mining under certain conditions. HEREAS it is desirable to encourage the development of the many copper mining claims which are held in this Colony and which, through lack of smelting facilities, remain undeveloped. And whereas for the purpose of this encouragement it is advisable to assist persons who may be willing to erect smelting works in the Colony, and also for the purpose of inducing persons who may be the owners of any copper mining claims to work and develop the same, to grant a bounty upon all ore which may be mined in such claims and smelted in the Colony. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 1. Smelters for use in the Colony for smelting copper and parts of the same and all machinery to be used in connection. with the same, and coke to be used for smelting purposes, shall be admitted into this Colony free of duty. Respecting pay2. There shall be paid to the proprietor of every copper ment of a bounty mining claim a bounty on all copper ore mined from such claim and smelted in this Colony, that is to say, one dollar for every ton of smeltable ore landed at the smelting works up to the quantity of one hundred tons from one mining location in any one year, and fifty cents per ton for every ton over one hundred up to five hundred tons of smeltable ore landed at the smelting works from one mining location in any one year; provided that the owner or owners of any smelting works shall not be entitled to any such bounty for any ore smelted which was mined upon any mining location the property of such owner or owners. 3. If the owners of any smelting works are the lessees of Expenditure on smelting works any copper mining locations in the Colony, a fee simple to be treated as expenditure in grant to which they are entitled upon the expenditure of mining under cersix thousand dollars in surface and subterranean mining, tain conditions. then in estimating the said expenditure of six thousand dollars, it shall be lawful to take into account for such purpose and to include in such amount the cost of smelting any such copper ore mined on any such location so as to entitle the owner or owners of said smelting works to a grant in fee simple of any copper mining location of which they are the lessees. CAP. XXIII. An Act for the Confirmation of a Contract for the Develop ment of the Coal Deposits of this Colony. SECTION 1. Confirmation of an Agreement between the Government and the Newfoundland Exploration Syndicate, Ltd. WH [PASSED 22ND MARCH, 1910.] 2. Power to Governor in Council to 3. Materials and machinery to be WHEREAS the Government has entered into an agree- Preample. cate, Limited, for the development of the coal deposits of the And whereas it is desirable that said Agreement should be approved and confirmed by the Legislature. |