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or as metairies with a promise to sell, thus encouraging the foundation of 

 land credit and of co-operative societies. 



Xo lot will be more than lOO hectares in area. No single person may 

 buy more than 200 hectares. 



In fixing the price of the lots, it will be necessary to consider, the 

 works already'- accomplished, such as canals, supph'- of water, roads etc., 

 in fact everything done to improve the property, the price per unit of 

 area of other land in the neighbourhood and the quantity, quality and 

 total value of the crops the lot can produce. 



Every lot will have right to a supply of water in proportion to the 

 area to be irrigated. The Government will undertake the work of irrigation 

 as long as the holder cultivates one half of the tract to be irrigated. Be- 

 sides this, the colonists will be bound to form a society to supervise the use 

 of the water according to rules to be established by the Government. 



The lots will be sold preferably to Mexicans who wish to return to 

 their country, and to poor labourers, citizens of the State. 



Payment must be made within 20 years at latest. During the first 

 five years the rate of interest will be 6 % on the purchase price and during 

 each of the following 15 years the same interest must be paid, together 

 with an instalment towards the extinction of the debt. 



Those persons who buy one lot or more in a " colony " must engage to 

 reside there. No colonist who does not fulfil this obUgation may bene- 

 fit by the delay allowed for payment, and this term will be held to have 

 expired from the day on which he violates the above condition. 



The Government will decide on the amount of ground necessary for 

 the maintenance of a family ; this area will be inalienable for 20 years and 

 can not be subjected to any charge and will not be distrainable, except 

 in case of judicial execution in connection with the mortgage passed in 

 guarantee of the purchase money. 



Besides considering direct colonisation, the Commission also turned its 

 attention to indirect colonisation ; the Government may make contracts with 

 private persons, whether Mexicans or foreigners or with Mexican societies 

 for the division and sale of land to colonists. 



In such cases it may give special facihtations, such as free grants of 

 national land, sell at cost price land purchased from private persons, with 

 a view to subdivision, exempt for five years from any tax on the capital 

 invested in the undertaking, and, once onh^ from customs dues on imple- 

 ments, machinery, articles of food, building materials, livestock for farm work 

 or breeding stock and all farm requisites generally. The Government also 

 shall transport, at its expense, on subsidised railway and shipping lines 

 the native or foreign labourers proceeding to settle on the land. 



There will be offered for sale or on lease for farms or for metairies with 

 right of purchase, a number of lots representing at least a third part of the 

 area subdivided, as soon as the}' are in a condition fit for irrigation, and the 

 limit of time after which the rest of the lots may be offered for sale will be 

 fixed in the contract. The Government may grant to purchasers of lots: 



