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prolonged for three terms of thirty years each. I^and thus granted can 

 never be converted into absolute property. 



Further special grants of pasturage for the raising of live stock are 

 made on lands not adapted to arable farming. They are for a term of 

 ten years and may be renewed for other ten j'-ears, and they should be re- 

 garded as grants of the third ki^d. 



The government of the colony may also alienate limited extents of 

 territory, by agreement or auction, if the intention be to cultivate them. 



Minute rules fix the obhgations of grantees to the administration and 

 third parties as well as the duties of the administration. 



If the granted land or part thereof be not cultivated the grant lapses, 

 totally or partially. Sub-letting is forbidden, and conditions have been de- 

 termined for the payment of the due, the lapse and the revocation of the 

 grant, and eventual expropriation. Grants may not be ceded to third parties 

 without the administration's consent, and any such cession must affect 

 all the land granted and such of its moveables and other accessories as serve 

 the cultivation or other necessity of the property. Lands which are the 

 subject of grants of the two first kinds and their accessories and easements 

 may not be the object of a distraint for debts of any kind whatsoever. On 

 such lands and their dependencies products in kind may not be pledged or 

 sequestrated unless to pay debts contracted before the grant was made and 

 having some connection with the grant. Provisions necessary to the nour- 

 ishment of the grantee and his family may not however be pledged in 

 any case before the next harvest, nor may seeds needed for the coming 

 season. 



Lands the subject of grants of the two first kinds may not be 

 burdened with mortgages. 



On obtaining the administration's formal authority the grantees of 

 lands may receive agricultural loans of capital, in the form and with the 

 pri^dleges estabHshed by the provisions in force in the kingdom of Italy, the 

 capital to be used for useful and permanent improvements and for e.K:tra- 

 ordinary works profitable to the granted land. Such loans may be secured 

 by mortgages. In order that granted land may not be subdivided the 

 organization limits the holder's power to bequeath it. 



All grants are exempt from payment of dues on contracts and of taxes 

 for ten j'ears. 



The administration may make agricultural loans in specie to grantees 

 of the first kind for the purchase of live stock, implements and other stock, 

 the construction of hou.ses ond rural buildings and other useful and perma- 

 nent improvements. The administration, or eventually the Commissariat 

 of Emigration of Rome, may — exceptionally and when the funds assigned to 

 colonization permit — advance the sum needed for the journey from Italy 

 to the colony, and for implements and household necessities, to three or more 

 adult persons of one family, fitted to cultivate granted land and desirous of 

 a grant of the first kind, but without the necessary capital. The capital 

 necessary to installation, to the exploitation of the land and to nouri.shment 

 until the first harvest has been garnered is also granted. 



