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5. During these ten years the tenant is 

 obliged 



(a) To spend on his area of land a 



sum equivalent to 200 times the 

 yearly lease, namely, for 12,500 

 acres an amount of 30,000 dollars 

 would have to be expended. 1 

 This amount can be spent in 

 cattle stock, agricultural mach- 

 inery, implements, houses, seed, 

 etc., in fact, anything connected 

 with the development of the land. 



(b) To have a complete survey made of 



the land the settler wishes to 

 take up and for which conditional 

 title has already been obtained, 

 and lodge these survey plans with 

 the Government. 



6. As soon as these two conditions are com- 

 plied with, the tenant has a right to definite title 

 at once and will receive it. 



7. Should the tenant fail to fulfil the last two 

 mentioned conditions the conditional title he 

 has received will be annulled, but as certain 

 expenditure will have been incurred during the 

 ten years mentioned above, a proportionate 

 part of the grant of land will be maintained and 

 a definite title will be given in respect of it, pro- 

 viding, of course, that the survey plans referred 

 to above are lodged with the Government. 



8. When the definite title lias been obtained 



1 As the value of the escudo changes ^o constantly, English 

 equivalents will not be given 



