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their real estate is not excluded, the procedure for redistribution will be 

 followed. , 



To allow these arrangements to be made the district commission can 

 fix a period during wliich the procedure for redistribution will be suspended. 

 Such delay will be imposed at the reciuest of the municipality, or the majo- 

 rity of the landowners to whom the conmiission would allow the right to 

 deposit in common with the municipality the demand for redistribution. 



Decisions are made by the district commission in the form of resolutions, 

 which are final if the delay already mentioned has been imposed. 



§ 2. Procedure for redistribution. 



1. Area Declared Open. Commission for Redistyihution . — As sorn 

 as the Higher President esteems that one or more redistributions maj^ be 

 made he declares in the case of each individual area that proceedings are 

 open and names an executive conmiission. One commission may even 

 have charge of several redistributions. 



There will belong to this commission as members : a) two commissio- 

 ners of the Higher President of whom one at least is a juriconsult able 

 to fulfil the functions of a judge ; h) an expert architect ; c) a certificated geo- 

 metrist ;. d) a higher administrative official ; e) an expert for the valuation 

 of the real estate. The Higher President will nominate all the members 

 of this commission and a deputy for each of them, and will choose a presi- 

 dent and \'ice-president from their number. Members of the municipality 

 cannot belong to this commission. The Higher President of the province 

 and the presidents of districts have the right to be present at the meetings 

 personally or to be represented at them. 



The members of the commission have the right to the reimbursement 

 of their expenses and to emoluments calculated according to the prescrip- 

 tions having force in the case of experts before the tribunals, unless they 

 are already paid as State officials. 



Resolutions of the commission are valid if passed at a meeting to 

 which all the members, the president and the vice-president have been sum- 

 moned and which half the members attend. They are passed by a majority 

 of votes, the president having a casting vote. 



The commission is represented judicially and extra-judicially b}' its 

 president. The opening of proceedings for redistribution and nomination 

 of the commission are communicated to the public in accordance with local 

 custom. 



2. Registration of Redistribution. — On the demand of the commission 

 the oflice of the land book must register in the land book the opening of 

 proceedings for redistribution. 



The conmiission must be aware of the contents of the land books. If 

 necessary it can claim copies of them. Entries made after the first re- 



