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We may form an idea at a glance of the progress made by the Spanish 

 Government in respect to the detailed Cadastre, by an examination of 

 the following table : 



Institutions of Ca- 

 dastral Character, 

 ai.d Cadi-stres. 



Statistical. 



Fiscal. 



I. lyand Statistics. 



2. Amiliaramientos. 5. 



Cadastre for Cul- 

 tivated Areas. 



Prelim nary 

 daslre. 



Ca- 



I,egal and Fiscal. 3. I<and Register. 6. Detailed Cadastre. 



This progress is in accordance with the figures by which we have 

 marked its several manifestations. It has already advanced along through 

 the whole series of cadastres in which only verbal indications are regis- 

 tered and has utihsed all the results. A great part of the agricultural wealth 

 and of the livestock, but not all, was first the object of statistical returns, 

 then of Amiliaramientos and thus, although imperfectly, the need of a 

 fiscal organization has been supplied. After so many years, comparatively 

 a small portion of Spanish land has been registered in the Register of Land 

 and it can scarcely be expected that the rest will be entered until the 

 information is given in the detailed cadastre. 



In the class of cadastres including both plans and verbal indications, a 

 commencement has been made with that for cultivated areas in the degree 

 permitted by the condition of the work undertaken for the preparation of 

 the map, but the insufficiency of this cadastre for the complex ends in view 

 was soon recognised. Then the preparation of plans of the individual 

 holdings was resolutely undertaken, even without consideration of the pre- 

 vious legal delimitation, and often, even, of the direct measurement of the 

 holdings, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the area from the above plans 

 by the indirect methods we shaU now indicate. To this detailed cadastre, 

 the name of preHminary cadastre has been given to show that by means of 

 it it is only intended to meet requirements of fiscal and statistical nature. 

 At this point of advance towards a detailed legal and fiscal cadastre, the 

 Spanish Government is perplexed and irresolute, in view of serious pro- 

 blems of another character by which it has been recently confronted, 

 against its wiU, and perhaps even contrary to its expectation^ and in view 

 of the cost to be borne in connection with this Cadastre, which is as it 

 were the limit of the evolution we have just been tracing. 



