NOTABLE BUILDIXCiS OF HAVANA. Tin- President's palaeo wht-ie Grvernor ilagoon now has his 

 offices. It Is an historical building and occuiiied in former times by the Spanish Captain-General 

 We.vler, later by ex-President Palma, and now by the Provisional Governor. It was built In 1834. 



EDIFICIOS NOTABLES DE LA IIABANA. 

 Magoon tiene sns ofleinas. 



El Palacio del Prrisidente, en donde el Sr. Goberuador 



of the Law of Civil Procedure which had been in force in Spain since 1856. This 

 law contained a clause providing that if before the actual operations of the survey 

 had begun any owner of adjoining lands should make objections to the same, the 

 operations should be discontinued (one of the main flaws in the articles of the Voto 

 Consultivo). This provision practically put a stop to the apportionment of the lands 

 in the eastern part of the island, where the "hacienda comunera" was well-nigh 

 universal. From interested motives, such as the fear on the part of owners of exten- 

 sive tracts that a survey would materially lessen the size of their holdings where 

 there were overlapping boundaries, or that their title was insecure in the absence of 

 documents to prove same, objections were readily forthcoming. The poverty and 

 ignorance of the small co-owners prevented their having recourse to legal proceedings 

 for securing a division which would determine the extent of their own holdings. 

 The Ten Years' War, 1868 to 1878, with the disturbed condition of the country 

 thereafter until the American intervention, effectually stayed proceedings, although 

 the amended Law of Civil Procedure extended to Cuba in September, 1885, had 

 attempted to further agricultural interests by providing for the demarcation and 

 apportionment of properties held in common as had been done formerly in accordance with 

 the Voto Consultivo cf the Audiencia of Puerto Principe. 



With American intervention came the opportunity to wipe out forever the 

 obstacle to agricultural advancement presented by the "hacienda comunera." The 

 committee of eminent Havana lawyers appointed by the government of intervention 

 to frame a survey law, recommended that methods similar to those pursued in testa- 

 mentary cases and insolvency be followed. While their recommendations applied to 

 the determination of boundaries of lands in individual ownership as well as of lands 

 held in common, it is with the method to be followed in reference to the latter only 

 that the present article is concerned. 



The petition for a survey may be made by any co-owner in the hacienda comun- 

 ■era, irrespective of the number of "pesos de posesion" constituting his holding. The 

 three stages of the proceedings to be followed, as outlined by the committee and put 

 in operation by the famous ^Military Order Number 62, promulgated ^Nlarch 5, 19C2, 

 are: i. Preparatory; 2. Demarcation (determination of boundaries), and Passing 

 -upon Titles; 3. Literior Division (apportionment). Of these several stages in the 

 survey of an hacienda, the public is kept informed by notices inserted in the local 

 papers of the judicial district in which the hacienda is located, and in the Official 

 Gazette of Havana. 



(TO BE CONTINUED IN THE JUNE I.SSUE.) 



