(7) Snow Line

The good news is we're not dealing with 18th-century legalese here. The bad news is that it's 19th-century legalese.

Every other sentence runs on like a lemming at a cliff. Your best bet is to read it out loud and really try to understand what every word is doing there. That's the best part. Because this is a legal document, the wording is as precise as it gets. If you see a word, it needs to be there. Use that to your advantage.

Or ask the lawyer in the family. They'll probably say, "Yeah, this law doesn't like Chinese laborers."