chap, v.] LANDLORD AND TENANT. 109 



or the like. The bemfeitorias are valued by two officers 

 appointed by the camera, who generally put an excessive 

 price on everything ; a practice which, where the landlord 

 is poor, goes far towards creating a perpetuity of tenure. 

 The tenant can sell his improvements without asking his 

 landlord's consent, and the landlord can dispose of his ground 

 without communicating his intention to the tenant. 



Government takes a tithe of the proceeds of an estate, 

 before the division is made between landlord and tenant. 



The contracto de colonia, or tenure, does not finish with 

 the death of the landlord or tenant, but continues with their 

 heirs, and with such as may purchase the land or the im- 

 provements upon it. 



