INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. ANNEX II. FoRMs OF LEASES. 1 1. NEWFOUNDLAND. THIS INDENTURE of Lease made the day of nineteen hundred and forty-one, between His Excellency Sir Humph- rey Walwyn, K.C .S.I., K.C .M.G ., C.B ., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, in Commission, hereinafter referred to as the New- foundland Government, of the first part, and the United States of America, of the other part: WHEREAS by Notes exchanged on the second day of September, nineteen hundred and forty (copies of which are appended to the Agreement hereinafter referred to) between His Majesty's Ambas- sador at Washington and the Secretary of State of the United States of America, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom undertook to secure the grant to the United States of America of the lease of certain Naval and Air bases and facilities in certain localities, including Newfoundland, for a period of ninety-nine years, free from all rent and charges other than compensation to be mutually agreed on to be paid by the United States in order to compensate the owners of private property for loss by expropriation or damage arising out of the establishment of the said bases and facilities; AND WHEREAS in furtherance of the said Notes an Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom and the United States of America was signed on the twenty-seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-one; AND WHEREAS in compliance with the undertaking of the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom hereinbefore referred to the New- foundland Government has agreed to demise and lease the several pieces or parcels of land hereinafter described; Now THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that in consideration of the premises the Newfoundland Government hath demised and leased and by these presents doth demise and lease unto the United States of America all those six several pieces or parcels of land (hereinafter referred to as the Leased Areas) described in the Schedule to these presents and delineated on the plans hereto annexed: To HAVE AND TO HOLD the same for the full end and term of ninety- nine years to begin and to be computed from the date of these presents free from the payment of all rent and charges other than compensation as aforesaid. AND the United States of America agrees that it will not during the term hereby granted use the Leased Areas nor permit the use I Plans annexed to these Forms of Leases not printed herein.- E DrroR.
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