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"(A) 7o plant, produce, farm, cultivate, and to raise any
crops, grains, rubber, cocoa, palm oil, trees, fruits,
coffee, fertilizers, or any products of any kind or
character, and to buy and sell the same and to process,
condition, refine, market and manufacture,
(B) 7o engage in the:timber, tree and lumber business, and
to plant, cut, saw, process, and to do all and every act
in connection therewith and to buy and sell the same,
and to market, process, condition and manufacture the
same or any products thereof, in conformity with
presently existing laws relating to lumbering,
(C) To engage in religious, philaniropic, educational, and
Scientific work, including all phases of missionary work,
and all things necessary in connection therewith as are
appropriate and proper under the Constitution and Laws
of the Republic of Liberia,
(D) To prospect for, mine, melt, refine, produce, buy and sell
any and all ores and minerals, and to manufacture and
market products therefrom, including but not limited
to the smelting of iron ore within Liberia and doing
all things necessary for the processing, refining,
fabricating and manufacturing of products made from iron..
(E) To acquire, by purchase, lease, concession or in any other
manner, and to mortgage, lease, sell or otherwise dispose
of mines, mining lands, mineral properties or any
interest therein, water courses, water and other rights,
power plants, transmission rights, communication systems
and franchises or concessions therefor (45),
It also had the right to ''construct, purchase., lease or
otherwise acquire, maintain and operate" within and without
its premises thansporation networks, communication systems,
power installations, or other infrastructural facilities
including hotels, refineries, trading companies and selling
agencies in order to carry out its "LeTourneau Liberian
Program" - provided however that upon request of the
Government of Liberia the general public was allowed to make
use of any of these facilities, installations or buildings
(46). In fact, LeTourneau was to construct a whole new town
in the concession area, the Town of Tournata (47).
To be entitled .to enjoy its concession rights (though the mining
rights granted required special agreements to be concluded between
LeTourneau and the Liberian Government) the company's only
obligation was the payment of a yearly rental for a minimum of
50,000 acres at the rate of 6 cents per acre.
Among the other privileges which the concessionaire were granted
v/ere exemption from import and export duties (for an unnamed
number of years) though the duty exemption would not apply to
semi-refined metals or minerals nor to finished precious metals
exported by the company which promised to endeavour not to export
raw materials from Liberia. It further became exempt from any