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not, as has been said, comprise more than 6.25 hectares, that is a quarter 

 of a lot. 



It is estabhshed that a beginning is at once to be made in entering 

 lands in the cadaster. Gradualh^ they will be divided into lots of 25 hec- 

 tares and each lot will be divided into four parts. Lands having a torrid 

 climate are however to be registered in the cadaster as the occasions for 

 granting them arise, without an}' division into lots. 



The provisions regulating the organization of the cadaster are likewise 

 precise. The organization is provided : a) by the cadaster's map of the col- 

 ony, on which the various lands of interest to the cadaster are marked : 

 b) by maps showing geographically the lands of the domain, their division 

 into lots and their respective sections ; c) by the census table which has a 

 volume for each map, wliile each volume has a folio for each lot comprised in 

 its map, giving the description, value and other particulars as to such lot, 

 and its easements and rights ; d) by a register establishing how and why a 

 property belongs to a given owner, and any limitations of his right to dispoie 

 of it resultant on his personal disability, whether such be due to his minority, 

 or to a suppression or prohibition of his abihty ; e) the table giving owners 

 which forms the general Hst of the properties. 



Rights in real estate and alienations of these are legally affirmed only 

 by entry in the registers of the cadaster (Article 206). 



The organization provides for all the conditions modifying entries 

 in these registers. All such entries are made by the keeper of the cadaster 

 with whom the map is deposited and who is answerable for it. The keeper 

 is moreover responsible for losses which may be incurred through incomplete 

 or erroneous entries. 



We will not notice the temporary provisions of the ordinance, the term 

 for which they were valid having already expired. We will merely add that 

 the application of these rules, and of many others connected with the 

 improvement of values in the colony and the examination of its economic 

 resources, is entrusted to a special governmental directing body called 

 the Direction of Colonization. 



§ 4. Colonizing experience. 



In the beginning of 1907 the lands forming the subject of agricultural 

 concessions to Europeans had a total area of 11,053 hectares. 



The list annexed to Number 60 of the report on the colony of Erythrea 

 presented to parliament in 1913 (vol. II.) gives all the data relative to the 

 various concessions, their situation and extent and the object for which 

 they were granted. 



It does not include the early concessions in the plain granted before 

 1896 and abandoned for 3'ears by the grantees, nor .some small farms, granted 

 temporarily and not regularized. The latter have little importance. 



