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(6) to restore everything advanced to him in money or imple- 

 ments within five years, paying one fifth of the whole sum each year be- 

 ginning from the fourth year of residence ; 



(c) not to part with implements or utensils which he has received 

 without replacing them, with the consent of the manager of the colony ; 



(d) not to sell or pledge under any form of contract the land en- 

 trusted to him, before having obtained full possession from the government; 



{e) to respect the rules of the colony and the regulations laid 

 down by the government. 



The government gives a title of absolute ownership to a colonist of 

 whose conduct the manager of the colony gives a favourable report. 



As security for the annual pa3-ments to be made by the colonist who has 

 received full ownership, his land is mortgaged till the debt has been fully 

 paid. Should he not observe the conditions, the contract is broken and 

 the government is freed from all responsibility. Should this occur before 

 the annual payments are made, the colonist must pay all that is due in one 

 sum, and should he fail to do so the law is invoked. 



If before sailing for Chile the colonist or his wife should have been 

 suffering from any serious or contagious malady, they will be rejected and 

 the contract becomes void. 



For the present no grants will be made either to Chilians or to 

 foreigners until the situation of certain colonists who have had concessions 

 and have not yet received their portion of land has been regulated. 



2. Colonisation by means of agencies. — This is the system generally 

 adopted of late. The contract between the Government and the agencies 

 is not cleatly defined by law. It is merely stated (art. ii of the law of 

 August 4*^*., 1874) that " to private individuals desiring to found colonies 

 on their own account on native territory there will be granted 150 hectares 

 of land in a level or undulating localit>, or twice as much of mountain 

 land, for every immigrant family from Europe or the United »States, ac- 

 cording to conditions to be fixed from time to time in the respective 

 contracts by the President of the Republic. " 



Concessions of this kind are founded on special contracts made accord- 

 ing to circumstances between the agency and the Government. 



The Government must grant the land, the agency must bring to Chili 

 a certain number of families within a given period. 



We give here an outline of one of these contracts in order to sho\v the 

 relation between the Government, the agenc}* and the colonist. All these 

 contracts are expressed in somewhat similar terms. 



For instance, in 1903 Mr. X. Y. obtained a concession of Govern- 

 ment land, and agreed to settle on it about 30 agricultural famihes within 

 two years from the date of the contract. Mr X. Y. had to form an agency 

 to carry out the contract under the supervision of the Inspector General 

 of Land and Colonisation in Chile. 



To Mr. X. Y., for every father of a family introduced by him, the 

 Government granted 150 hectares and for every boy above two years 

 of age 75 hectares, as well as the ground necessary to construct a village 



