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be that the owner of the estate is also of the adjoining one. A boundary-line shall 
only be suppressed and the trees removed when the ownership of two adjoining estates 
becomes merged into one. i tea 
ARTICLE 7. In setting out trees along the boundary-lines of estates, whatever be 
their size above the 25 areas, there shall be left at least a neutral meter of untilled 
ground, half on each side, for the transit of laborers and working-cattle, and any tree 
which may have been set out wrong, or in its growing shall obstruct this meter of un- 
tilled ground, shall be removed and replaced at the next distribution ; so that the 
neutral untilled ground should be between two rows of trees of different owners. 
ARTICLE 8. Without prejudice to the temporal exemption from taxes conceded by 
the law of rural population of June 3, 1868, to those who plant trees, the trees of the 
estate boundary-lines given by the ayuntamientos, as also those which individuals 
may voluntarily place on boundaries, these not being fruit-trees, shall be exempt from 
all taxation. 
ARTICLE 9. It remains at the discretion of individuals to place trees, in the method 
and of the kinds they think best, within the estates, upon which the present law has 
no effect. , 
ARTICLE 10. The provincial deputations shall also establish sufficient nurseries to 
line with trees the highways of the province and of the state which may be within 
their jurisdictions, holding responsible, under penalty of ioss of their situations, the 
public-road laborers who neglect the planting and preservation of the trees. The 
ayuntamientos will do the sange as regards vicinal roads already constructed under 
authoritative prescriptions, and moreover will set out on the squares and public places 
as many as they can for the adornment and health of the town. Railroad companies 
are under obligation to set out trees at their own expense on the boundaries of all 
their roads and stations. The owners of banks of river-beds, who set out trees along 
the limits of their properties, will likewise enjoy the benefits of article 8. 
ARTICLE 11. The propagation, care,and police of the general planting of trees on 
boundaries, roads, highways, and water-ways belong to the administration, with aid 
of the facultative body. All questions between parties regarding right of property in 
common, of boundary-lines, or of damage to the trees, belong to the ordinary jurisdic- 
tion. 
ARTICLE 12. The government will within a term of one month form the proper reg- 
ulations for the fulfillment of this law. 
Palace of the congress, 28th of March, 1876. 
JOSE IGNACIO ESCOBAR. 
THE MARQUES DE VIANA. 
THE MARQUES DE VILLABOBAR. 
ADOLPHO BAYO. 
CARLOS DE SEDANO. 
R. ALZUGARAY. 
CULTIVATION OF COFFEE IN MEXICO. 
By Hon. Joun W. FOSTER, 
United States Minister to Mexico. 
The total product of the eoffee-crop of the world for 1874 is estimated 
at about 900,000,000 pounds,* of which amount the United States im- 
ported in 1875 one-third, or 317,970,665 pounds ; which fact is sufficient 
to indicate the great interest which this country has in its production 
and cost. 
The chief coffee-producing countries are Brazil, (whose product is 
about two-thirds of the entire amount,) the Dutch colonies, the West 
Indies, the Central and South American republics, and Ceylon. 
Coffee was first introduced into Europe more than two hundred years 
ago, but during the last fifty its use has greatly increased, and of recent 
years the supply has not kept pace with the growing demand in the 
civilized world. In the United States the amount imported twenty 
years ago, in 1856, was 235,865,268 pounds, of the value of $21,573,558. 
*American Grocer, September 26, 1875. 
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