at least one inhabitant for every two hundred hectares,[1] who shall reside thereon without interruption during ten years, not being absent more than foir months during each year. In failing to comply with this clause of the law, they will forfeit their right to the land, as well as the price paid for it.
"Any person enabled to hold property by 'denouncement' of public lands can not obtain more than 2,500 hectares,[2] by virtue of the law of limitation, until he has had possession of the land for ten years, and has complied with the other requisites of law, and those prescribed in the above clause."
These extracts from the laws of Mexico are taken from Castro's Republic of Mexico, pp. 188-190.
Lawyers who have taken a degree are termed licenciados. The leading counselors of the principal cities can generally speak English. Very few foreigners have thus far begun the practice of law in the Republic. Excepting the Supreme Court at the capital (Suprema Corte), the court-rooms are open to the public. The judges sit from 9 to 12 a. m., and from 3 to 5 p. m. The Jurisdiction of the inferior tribunals (juzgados) resembles that of the county courts of the United States.
For further information on the laws of Mexico, consult the following Spanish works: El Protocolo, El Codigo, El Nuevo Escribano Instruido, Las Ordenanzas de Tierras y Aguas, and Las Ordenanzas de Mineria. The latter consists of mining laws.
LI.
Education.
Unfortunately, a Small portion only of the Mexican people are able to read and write. The number of
