84 ERYTHREA - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



The adniinistration may promote the constitution of consortiums for 

 the execution and maintenance of hydraulic works, works of improve- 

 ment and works connected with roads, if these be of recognised utiht}^ to 

 the grantees, and also for the common purchase of machines, seeds and other 

 such articles. The administration ought to participate in the consortium 

 as it may increase the value of neighbouring domain lands which have not 

 yet been granted. 



When these works are also of general utility the administration should 

 bear a proportionate part of the expense. When moreover it seems ne- 

 cessary^ the administration may form obligatory consortiums, bearing not 

 less than a fifth share of the total cost of the labour or work undertaken. 



The ordinance has also fixed the obligations of the government to new 

 centres of colonization which ma^^ be formed. 



The seco'nd chapter of Clause III {Of Grants) is concerned with grants 

 of land for building, the third chapter with grants for industrial objects. 



As regards the latter it should be noted that the governor makes spe- 

 cial grants for the harvesting and utilization of products, whether growing 

 wild or cultivated, which are called industrial, of land having an area not 

 exceeding 10,000 hectares and for terms of no more than fifteen years. In 

 other cases the grants are made by the central government. 



Other grants may be made by the governor b)' contracts fixed as 

 each case presents itself, for quarries, ovens and agricultural and industrial 

 experiments. Woods may never be the object of grants, the colonj^'s 

 government being responsible for the sale of forest-trees and other woods 

 according to the rules of the forest code (Chapter V. ol the same clause : 

 Various Grants). 



Chapter IV. of the same clause deals at length with mining grants, 

 winch by their nature are outside the scope of this article. 



Chapter VI. deals with the procedure of the application for and the de- 

 livery of granted land. 



Clause IV. is concerned with the cadaster, divided into the rural cad- 

 aster which comprises all lands accruing to the domain except those includ- 

 ed in the regulating plans, the urban cadaster which comprises the districts 

 included in the plans regulating building in inhabited localities, and the 

 special cadaster in which are entered lands in determined zones or localities 

 on which particular rights exist or which present a particular interest, and 

 in the case of which criteria and rules other than those prescribed by the 

 rural and urban cadasters must be followed. This important clause is 

 subdivided into four chapters, of which the first is concerned with the 

 institution of the cadaster, the second with its formation, the third with its 

 publication and the fourth with its preservation. 



As regards the rural cadaster, which is the one most interesting to us, we 

 would briefly notice that it is divided into three categories : a) lands of the 

 high plateau within a radius of five kilometres of the urban centres of Asmara, 

 Addi Ugri, Saganeiti, and other lands which the government may designate ; 

 b) other lands within the temperate zone ; c) lands within the districts hav- 

 ing a torrid climate. Within the lands comprised under letter a grants may 



