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Ordered that the administration and control of the two areas of crown land described in the Schedule hereto be and they are hereby transferred to Canadian Overseas Telecommunications

Corporation and its Associates, under the provisions of The Administration and Control of Lands of the Crown (Transfer) Act, for purposes in connection with the servicing of their telephone cables subject to the following limitations and conditions:

(i)            the land shall at all times be used by Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation and Associates for purposes in connection with the servicing of their telephone cable lines;

(ii)           all minerals, quarry materials, coal, natural gas, oil and salt in and under the said land shall be reserved to Her Majesty in right of Newfoundland; and

(iii)          if and as soon as the said land ceases to be used for the purpose mentioned in (i) above, the  administration and control thereof shall thereupon be assumed by Her Majesty in right of Newfoundland.

SCHEDULE

All that piece or parcel of land situate and being on the  south side of the grin Highway near Hargrove Pond in the  Electoral District of Placentia West abutted and bounded as follows, that is to  say: Beginning at a point being  survey station 744+ 83 of the telephone cable right-of  way transferred to Her Majesty in right of Canada for the use of Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation by Minute of Council 210-62 dated the 30th May, 1962; thence running along the said right-of-way north eighty degrees two minutes east sixty-nine decimal zero (69.0) feet; thence running by and at a distance of 33 feet from the westerly shoreline of Hargrove Pond north eleven degrees sixteen minutes west sixty-seven decimal zero (67.0) feet and thence south sixty-seven degrees fifty six minutes west one hundred and twenty-one decimal one (121.1) feet; thence running by Crown land north twelve    degrees four minutes west two hundred and fourteen decimal six (214.6) feet, more or less, to the southerly limit of the Burin  Highway 100 feet wide; thence running along the said southerly limit south sixty-six degrees nine minutes west fifty-six decimal four (56.4) feet and thence south fifty-nine degrees thirty-four minutes west ninety-seven decimal zero (97.0) feet; thence running by Crown land south twenty-six degrees twenty-seven minutes east two hundred and seventy-six decimal zero (276.0) feet, more or less, to a point in the aforesaid telephone cable right-of-way; thence along the said right-of-way north fifty-six degrees one minute east one hundred and thirty-eight decimal zero (138.0) feet, more or less, to the point of beginning; excepting nevertheless out of the above described area a strip of land 5 feet wide extending along its southern boundary.  Also all that piece or parcel of land situate and being on the south side of the Burin Highway in the Electoral District of Placentia West and being approximately one-half mile northeast of Hargrove Pond abutted and bounded as follows, that is to say: Beginning at a point in the telephone cable right-of-way of the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation as described in Minute of Council 210-62 dated May 30th, 1962, the said point being distant one hundred and one decimal zero(101.0) feet on a bearing of south sixty-two degrees forty-eight minutes west from station 769 + 48 of the said telephone cableright-of-way; thence running by Crown land north thirteen degrees zero minutes west two hundred and seventy-six decimal three (276.3) feet; thence by the southern limit of the Burin Highway south eighty-six degrees thirty-four minutes west one hundred and eighty-one decimal nine (101.9) feet; thence by Crown land south eleven degrees two minutes east one hundred and forty-two decimal zero (142.0) feet and thence south six degrees thirty-Six minutes east two hundred and eighteen decimal nine (218.9) feet; thence running along the aforesaid telephone cable right-of-way north sixty-two degrees forty-eight minutes east two hundred and fifteen decimal three (215.3) feet, more or less, to the point of  beginning, excepting nevertheless out of the above described area a strip of land 5 feet wide extending along its southern boundary as more particularly shown outlined in yellow on the plan annexed hereto; all bearings being magnetic.