THE CADASTRE IN SPAIX I31 



The register of areas is provisional, for the official has not measured 

 the parcels : he has first of all accepted the indications given by the sur- 

 veyors or those suppHed by a simple estimation of his own, which is called 

 in Spanish afo}o. However, he intends to assure himself, by way of 

 verification of his various personal estimates, that the total areas thus 

 estimated in the case of each parcel of a topographical polygon, is equal 

 indeed to their total area, which he knows already with sufficient accuracy, 

 from the operation indicated as no. 3 of the table of cadastral operations. 

 In any case, he has to wait for the proprietor's declaration before making 

 the provisional registration of this characteristic final. 



The indications of classification and mode of tenure are provisional, 

 because the final entries correspond with the periods of valuation and 

 declaration. 



A may happen that the parcels are not homogeneous either in quality 

 (mode of cultivation or other use), or in their classification (intensity of pro- 

 duction) and then they are divided into smaller parcels representing 

 these differences, the areas of which are also measured. However, if these 

 subdivisions are still very large, as one can never hope that the declaration 

 of the landlord will give anything but a very vague indication of the area 

 of each, the tracing of the lines of the polygon separating the various crops 

 and the various degrees of intensity of production is proceeded with. Yet 

 this kind of operation is exceptional, and it is marked with the same number 

 in the corresponding table. 



Period of Declarations. — In this period, the co-operation of landlords 

 in the work of the cadastre, ceases to be representative and becomes direct 

 and individual ; they declare in a report, on oath, the characteristics of 

 their holdings. 



In general, the characteristics noted in these declarations agree with 

 those arrived at by the office during the period of the survey work If, by 

 way of exception, there are some that do not quite agree, as necessarily 

 this will be a case of material error, these characteristics are known, 

 careful correction will be made until the disagreement disappears. 



When the disagreement is in reference to the kind of tenure, it is also 

 made to disappear. Therefore, there is again need of the intervention 

 of the municipal executive council and the landowner, whose declarations 

 will be considered and compared in open court. Whether there be disagree- 

 ment or not, it is only after a favourable sentence has been given that the 

 provisional entry can be made final. 



In order that the area may be established definitely, a different course 

 is pursued, whether or not there is disagreement between the indications 

 furnished by the officer and the landholder's statement. 



We have said that this officer makes a total of the areas that according 

 to his personal estimation he assigns to each of the parcels of a polygon and 

 that he corrects them, until, within certain limits permitted, this total is 

 equal to that obtained for the polygon by means of the measurement of the 

 plans. The same check is made use of in the case of the areas declared 

 by the landholders. If, always within the same limits, the amount of the 



