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Law No. 1,430 Of 22 April 1940 On The Colonies

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 1.430 din 22 aprilie 1940 asupra colonizărilor

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LEGE no. 1.430 1.430 of 22 April 1940 on the colonizations
ISSUER JUSTICE MINISTRY
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 98 98 of 25 April 1940



CAROL II, Through the grace of God and the will of the National, King of Romania, To all present and future, health: The Legislative assemblies voted and adopted, and We sanction what follows: + Chapter I Settlement operations + Article 1 The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, through the Commercial Service of Colonization, will do settlement operations in the conditions of the present law. Settlement operations are understood: settlement of settlers on land destined for colonization, their good installation in settlement centers as well as their economic, social and cultural organization. Through the colonization center is understood a group of settler households, seated in an old village or forming a new settlement, together with the lands related to this group. Colonization will be done in existing villages or in new villages, which will be established only if the stretch of the land allows the settlement in a center of at least 30 settler families. The settlers as far as possible will be grouped so that in the same center will be brought population coming from the same region and having the same denomination. + Article 2 The Service of Colonization has a commercial character, applying the provisions provided by art. 20 of the law for the organization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, published in the Official Gazette No. 82 of 6 April 1939. As regards preventive control, it will be carried out according to the general rules established by art. 43-48 of the public accounting law. The Colonization Service is headed by a Steering Committee, consisting of three members appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Domains and a Director. The duties of the Steering Committee and the Director, as well as the remuneration of the members of the Committee, shall be determined by the implementing regulation of the present law. + Article 3 The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains is authorized to grant the settlers facilitation, through housing construction, distribution of building materials, agricultural tools, seeds and others, the value of which will be refundable by settlers in the conditions laid down in this Law. It will also be able to endow, within the means of the colonization service, the settlement centers with agricultural centers, with places of public interest: schools, churches, cultural hostels, with works for water supply, etc. Measures will also be taken to delimit the land necessary for protective curtains. These plantations become the property of the communes and will be administered as communal forests. These works will be executed in total or in part in the account of the State, either in directing or by anthalf. + Chapter II Settlement real estate fund + Article 4 The remaining lands available through the application of the agrarian reform laws, the law for the organization of the Noui Dobrogea and the merging operations in that region, as well as the lands belonging to the State or acquired through the exercise of preemption, by applying the convention with the Turkish State regarding the land of emigrants, published in the Official Gazette No. 264 of 1936, or by another way will be intended for settlement operations, making up the "Real Estate Fund of Colonization". The ministry will be able to depose from this fund the necessary areas of public interest institutions. The Ministry will provide in its ordinary budget a subsidy of at least 40,000,000 lei annually necessary: construction of housing, establishment of settlements and execution of works of public interest, as well as to ensure the functioning of the Service Commercial of colonization. + Chapter III Choice of settlers and assignment of lots + Article 5 On the lands that make up the settlement real estate fund, the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains will be able to colonize, after their choice, among the Romanian inhabitants who meet the following conditions: a) Be at the age of no more than 50 years and have satisfied the law of recruitment; b) Not to be put under the cleaning or under the prohibition; c) Not to have suffered penalties for desertion, for crimes of common law, forgery, embezzlement of public money, scams or attack on good morals; d) To be married or to children; e) To have the occupation of chieftain agriculture; f) To have the agricultural inventory necessary for the cultivation of the lot; g) To prove by medical certificates that neither he nor any of the family members who live with him, is ill with tuberculosis or syphilis. + Article 6 Romanians coming from abroad to be colonized can be provisionally admitted to colonization, before being obtained Romanian citizenship, to be satisfied the law of recruitment and to have procured their agricultural inventory; the property of the lot cannot be transmit before being satisfied and these conditions. + Article 7 They are preferred to colonization: a) Those who, apart from the conditions provided by art. 5, will provide proof that they have a more important inventory for the exploitation of the lot and sufficient means to draw up their household; b) Graduates of any recognized institution of agricultural technical training, which does not occupy public functions; c) Those from regions farther away from the colonisation centre; d) Those who distinguished themselves in the war for the reunification of the nation through acts of bravura and especially those decorated with the Military Virtue who meet the conditions provided by art. 5 5; e) War volunteers registered in the special register of M.A.N., according to I.D.R. No. 64 of February 8, 1940; f) Those who have freed themselves from the army with the rank of sergeant. + Article 8 Priests, teachers, communal agronomists, communal grassland managers, veterinary agents, forestry brigadiers, rangers, as well as small rural officials (paid from communes budgets), can be colonized in the centers where they operate, if necessary. The Service of Colonization considers that it is in the interest of the center and if they meet the conditions provided in 5 5, except for the one in par. e and f. For each of these categories a single batch will be made. Their total in the same colony will be a maximum of 5 lots and will not exceed 10 percent of the extent of the land attributed to the colony. + Article 9 The plot of land for colonization will be based on a settlement plan drawn up by the Steering Committee and approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, which will determine how to use the land, stretching lots and the colonial plan of the colony. The technical plot works will be done either by anthalf or in directing by the technical office of the Colonization Service, according to the technical norms in the specifications of the Land Books Directorate and the Land Cadastre. + Article 10 The colonization lot will be 10 ha land of culture and a place of home and garden in the village hearth. On the special grounds of intense or high value culture: irrigating, living, orchards of trees, places in the outskirts of cities, etc., or in order to colonize some categories of rural inhabitants with special occupations (forestry, mining, fishermen, etc.), in cases when such settlements are deemed necessary in relation to the economic character of the region, lots of less than 10 ha can also be constituted. For rural craftsmen: blacksmiths, rotari, lemnari, mechanics, lots of 3 ha will be made. Lots of more than 10 ha can be assigned up to a maximum of 50 ha, and around the more important counts of estates destined for colonization even up to 100 ha, to settlers who take their obligation that, within 3 years, after a plan determined by May before and staggered during this period, to make on the lot assigned investments of at least 5,000 lei per hectare above the purchase price of the lot in: living and dead inventory, construction, land improvements, etc. The non-execution of the program within the fixed term entails the dispossession of the settler, entitled to compensation for the value of investments made and which could not be raised. + Article 11 Those admitted to colonization will be put in possession of the lots with the provisional title of arendas, being obliged to pay the lease fixed by the Steering Committee. The arendays will be debited on the basis of the minutes of possession, which is also the title of prosecution and will be followed through the fiscal bodies of the State. These revenues are affected by the Commercial Service of Colonization. No settler can remain in the situation of the tenant for more than 2 years. If during this time he will not have fulfilled the conditions required by art. 12, in order to be able to transmit the property to the lot, will be administratively dispossessed. Romanians come from across borders, who can remain tenants until the expiry of the deadlines provided by the laws for fulfilling the forms of obtaining Romanian citizenship and satisfying military bonds, if they prove that they did legal steps for this purpose and that they have complied with the bonds fixed by art. 12. During the time the settlers stay as tenants on the lot, they will be guided by a head of the colony and receive a special technical training. + Article 12 The passage of the lot into the settler's property is done by act of sale-purchase concluded between the settler and the State, represented by the Commercial Service of Colonization; in the regions subject to the land book regime, by intabulation of the right of property in the land book under this contract. The intabulation of ownership of these lots will only be done with the grading of the character of "good assigned by colonization." The act of sale cannot be drawn up until after that settler has been definitively established in the settlement centre and will be found to have fulfilled the following conditions: To have made a household in the colony. To cultivate the lot directly, with own inventory. To have executed the investment and culture program established, in the case provided by art. 10. To have paid all the arendays owed to the Commercial Service of Colonization. The acts of lease as well as those of sale-purchase are exempt from any stamp and registration taxes and proportional taxes; however, the settlers will bear the administrative expenses for the preparation and transcription or intabulation of the act. The unpaid purchase price, together with the advanced amounts for house construction, will strike the lot and enroll in the land book as a task. + Chapter IV Fixing and paying the price of settlement lots + Article 13 The price of the settlement lots shall be fixed per hectare, according to the rules below. For land from expropriation or law enforcement results for the organization of Dobrogei-Noui, it will be based on the rules established by the respective agrarian reform laws; for land bought or derived from exchange or composition or from the convention with the Turkish State of 1936, regarding the immovable property of the emigrant Turks, it will be taken as the basis of the price resulting from the act of sale, of exchange, the one envisaged at the merger or the one resulting from the convention with the Turkish State. The price thus calculated will be added: a) Proportional share of the expenses made by the State with any improvement works; b) An increase of 5 percent to the total price of the lots representing the share proportional to the extent of the lot, from the value of the areas intended as reserves of local public interest in the village hearth for: roads, markets, fountains, public institutions, etc.; c) Measurement and related plot expenses. For lots consisting of purchased land, the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains is empowered, if the purchase price is too high, to take on some of this price, up to a maximum of 50 percent, with the authorization of the Council of Ministers. The fixing of the price of communal pastures, constituted from the real estate fund of the colonizations, will be made according to the norms of the laws for the respective agrarian reform, and the payment will be made by the commune in 30 years, without interest. For Dobrogea Noua, the communal pastures destined for the settlers are given free of charge to the communes they hold the respective centers Their property is transmitted to the communes. + Article 14 The entire value of settlement lots calculated according to the rules of art. precedent, will be paid by the settlers within 25 years, without interest, with the annual rate at 1 Noemvrie of each year. The rates will be chargeable after acquiring the property of the lot according to art. 12. The debits prepared by the Commercial Service of Colonization for the payment of settlement lots and communal pastures, will be entered in the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, as state revenues or for the coverage of loans that have Served for buying land. + Article 15 The sales contracts, drawn up until the publication of the present law, will be modified at the request of the settlers, by means of additional authentic instruments, in order to agree with the conditions provided by this law, regarding the price lots and payment arrangements. + Article 16 The value of the constructions and facilitations granted to the settlers is returned in 30 annual installments, payable to 1 Noemvrie of each year, without any interest. The minutes of handing over housing, building materials and other facilitations in any form, or receipts signed by the settlers, as well as the statement of account, issued by the Commercial Service of Colonization, constitute titles on the basis of which debits are and remain final, and can be followed according to the law for the unification of the tax The settlers who obtained construction material from the State are obliged to provide their home and household. + Article 17 Non-payment of two consecutive rates from the price of settlement lots and the other debits provided in art. 16 attracts the full termination of the contract of sale and the dispossession of the settler, without notice or putting into delay, the State retaining the rates paid in the account of the price, as equivalent to the use of the lot. The bodies of the Ministry of Finance delegated with the collection of debits are obliged, under the sanction provided by art. 24 of the law on public accounting, to communicate to the Commercial Service of Colonization the names of the settlers left in late payment with the payment of two installments. + Chapter V The legal regime of settlement lots and the duties of settlers + Article 18 The settlement lots, in the extent to which they were constituted as such, are economic units and are indivisible and as property and as exploitation. They cannot be divided either by alienation by acts between vineyards or by succession. Any kind of acts, under any name and in any form, that would lead in practice to the division of property or exploitation of lots, shall be considered null and any division of fact shall be considered without effect, and any holders shall be evicted. + Article 19 Voluntary estrangements, both onerous and free of charge, of settlement lots can be done only with the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, only to other settlers or persons who meet the conditions provided by art. 5 for admission to colonization and in compliance with the conditions provided in art. Precedent, and only after the passage of 5 years since the settlers became owners. They are exempt from the fulfilment of the conditions shown in paragraph 1, the alienations for endowments or donations to children and those for leaving the indivision. In cases of estrangements by acts between vineyards, except those made to children, the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains reserves the right to redeem the lots, returning to the settler the paid and plus rates-the value due to investments and his work. Plus-the value will be determined within 30 days from the registration of the application for the authorization of the sale, by a delegate of the Ministry of Agriculture, assisted by the mayor of the respective commune or his deputy and by two settlers the leaders of the colonization center, in the presence of the settler, who will be quoted for this purpose. In case of dissatisfaction, the settler has the right to ask for the fixing plus-value on the way of justice, in contradiction with the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains (Trade Service of Colonization), within 30 days from the date he became aware of Estimate made. This right also has the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, when the assessment made does not seem to be in line with reality. In these cases the procedure provided by art. 31 31 of the law. The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains will rule on the request for alienation, approving at redemption or granting the authorization for sale, within 30 days from the date when the settler gave thanks to the estimate or from the final stay of the court decision. If the Ministry has not pronounced itself this term, it amounts to tacit approval, with the settler able to ask the Ministry for proof of expiry. The payment for the redemption of the settlement lots will be made by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, from the funds that will be provided for this purpose and will become chargeable from the moment when the ransom was communicated to the settler. Estrangements of any kind, made in any way and in any form, with non-compliance with the provisions above, are and remain null of law, and the lot, including the investments made on it, enter the patrimony of the State from any hand would be, without no right of compensation. Nullity is public order and can also be invoked by the Public Ministry, in 10 years from the date of alienation. + Article 20 Settlement lots can only be mortgaged to: Rural House, Rural Land Credit, Rural Mortgage Bank, Bank for the industrialization and valorisation of agricultural products, Mortgage Agricultural Credit, Agricultural Credit Companies empowered by the Bank. law, credit unions of any degree and any kind, empowered by the Ministry under whose control they are to do such operations, as well as the banking institutions, empowered, namely by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, on the basis of recommendations made by the National Bank of Romania. These institutions, by way of derogation from art. 21, para. 3, can buy at the auction public the lots on which they have the mortgage, with the obligation, however, to sell them within 3 years from the transcript of the adjudication ordinance, also to a settler. + Article 21 In the case of forced execution of a settler's estate wealth by the creditor, all debts of any nature of the settler to the State become entirely chargeable. The following creditor is obliged, under the sanction provided for in the last paragraph of art. 22, to notify the command or the conclusion of ordering the execution, the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains. The Commercial Service of Colonization, which will communicate to the court of tracking the debts to the State, which strikes the lot of the colonial. Settlement lots will only be able to be awarded to other settlers, or to those persons who meet the conditions of admissibility to colonization provided by art. 5. The auctioneers shall submit to the executing court certified from the Commercial Service of Colonization, that they meet the conditions of admissibility upon colonization. + Article 22 The state, the Land and the commune, for tax debts, then the State (Ministry of Agriculture and Domains), for the amounts owed to them as rates from the price of the lot, arenzi and any aid granted, such as: aid for housing construction, agricultural inventory, seeds, etc. and only after that other claims that may be the subject of a real estate pursuit on the basis of this law. If the adjudicatory settler cannot submit the price of the adjudication in full, he will be able to take over the debts of the debtor to the State, represented by the Ministry of Agriculture, in whole or in part, giving for this purpose a declaration Genuine taking over these debts under the same conditions of payment and with the obligation to submit to the settlement regime. The final adjudication order, which will also include the mention of the possible takeover of debts, will be communicated, on a mandatory basis, by the court that pronounced it, to the Commercial Service of Colonization, which will register the adjudicator in the register by settlers. Any forced execution, made against these dispositions and those of art. 21, is void of law and cannot be opposable to the State. + Article 23 The real estate tracking on the settlement lot can only be done under the mortgage receivables contracted with the creditors listed in art. 20 or under the claims of the State, Land and communes for taxes and criminal condomnations. Under the other claims, there are allowed either pursuits on securities or on the income of the non-buyer; in the latter case the case will follow according to art. 211 and 212 of the law LX/1881, in the regions where this law is in force. In case of revenue tracking only debtors will be able to be appointed administrators or sequesters on their own goods. + Article 24 A settler cannot acquire, either by approved purchases or by adjudications, settlement lands more than 50 ha, including the lot with which he was colonized. Each of the acquired lots retains the character of an economic unit within the meaning of art. 18. + Article 25 The exchanges of lots between the settlers are allowed with the approval of the Commercial Service of Colonization, but only between the owners settlers and provided that the debts payable to the State are fully paid, including taxes to the State, Held and common. + Article 26 Any settler can designate by will the heir to whom the property of the settlement lot will be assigned and who will have to compensate on the copartasi, according to the provisions of the Civ. Carol II Code. When the heir has not been designated, the lot can be attributed by good agreement to one of the legal heirs. In case of misunderstanding among the comminders, the competent peace judge will proceed to the assignment of the lot entirely to the one of the combers who seems to be more capable of taking the duties of exploitation and compensation and who takes the obligation to settle in the settlement centre. The trial will also be made urgently with the citation of the parties. In all these cases, the judge is obliged to conclude a finding journal that will constitute the title of the property. A copy of this finding journal will be submitted ex officio, under disciplinary sanctions, to the Commercial Service of Colonization, in order to keep track of the property mutation. If the heir to whom the lot remained does not execute his indemnity obligation to the other comers within the fixed term, the lot reenters the individual patrimony of the comers and any of them can ask the court to remove him in sale by public auction, for the exit from the indivision, in compliance with the provisions of art. 21 21 of this law. + Article 27 Colonists without reserve heirs can test the colonization lot and persons who are not relatives with the deceased in succession, who, however, meet the conditions required by art. 5 5 of the law. + Article 28 The properties coming from the real estate fund of colonization of deceased settlers without relatives in succession and testamentary heirs, re-enter the patrimony of the State (Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, real estate fund of settlement), along with all the buildings and investments on them. + Article 29 The settlers, regardless of the legal regime under which they were colonized or by the way they acquired the lot, are obliged: a) To settle with the family in the settlement center where they were assigned the lot and to have their real domicile there; b) To draw up their household in the settlement center; c) To have agricultural inventory for the cultivation of the lot in good conditions; d) To directly exploit the assigned lot; e) To submit to the obligations imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, regarding the culture plan, to the organization of the means of culture and comrades to guide the settlers to a rational and intensive culture, to the dissolution their products and improving the cattle breed. The batches of the incapacitated will be able to be administered by lease of their legal representatives throughout the incapacity. + Article 30 Apart from the cases of dispossession provided for in art. 11, 17, 18 and 19, will be removed from colonization and dispossessed all settlers who will find that they do not meet the conditions of art. 29. In all cases of dispossession, the finding will be made by the delegated body of the Ministry of Agriculture in the assistance of the mayor of the respective commune or his deputy and two local settler witnesses, through individual minutes that have the probative power until proven otherwise. + Article 31 For cases of dispossession provided for by this law, settlers who are not yet owners and hold the lots as tenants, will be excluded and dispossessed administratively. Exclusion and dispossession shall be decided by the Commercial Service of Colonization and shall be executed by the County Agricultural Services. Dispossession of settlers with property titles and those completed on the basis of provisions of art. 54 of the law on colonization of July 17, 1930, is pronounced by the peace judge in the city of residence of the county, by a decision given at the request of the Commercial Service of Colonization. The decision will be given with the right of appeal to the court within 15 days off from the ruling, if the party was a girl and from communication if it was missing. The caller is obliged to make the choice of home by the appeal petition and to motivate the call, also submitting the documents to be served, until the first day of appearance. The court presence covers the lack of procedure. The court, for thorough reasons, will be able to grant a single deadline for the completion of the grounds of appeal and the filing of documents. The court will adjudicate urgently and in particular. The procedure will be free and the parties will be quoted ex officio + Article 32 In cases of dispossession of settlers with property titles and whose lots will be mortgaged to one of the institutions provided by art. 20 of this law, the Commercial Service of Colonization will collect, two months before the start of formalities, the respective credit institution, if it previously communicated to the Commercial Service of Colonization the existence of its claim Mortgage. The pursuit started by the creditor institution suspends the dispossession procedure. + Article 33 In the case of dispossession, the whole lot of the settler, including the place of the existing house and buildings, enters the patrimony of the State, the real estate fund of The dispossessed settlers will be entitled to compensation for the value of investments made and which could not be raised, apart from the cases provided in art. 18 18 and 19, al. penultimate. + Article 34 On the lots resulting from disposals or by exercising the right of redemption provided for in art. 19, new colonizations will be made in particular to colonize the descendants of the dispossessed settler, if they meet the conditions of the present law. The price of these lots will be calculated and paid according to the rules established by art. 13, adding the amount of compensation granted to the dispossessed settler. + Chapter VI Final provisions and transitors + Article 35 The house seats in the villages of the villages, left available after the settlers ' satisfaction, can be sold by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains (Service of Colonizations) by good deal with immediate payment: a) Crafts that are necessary for the colony; b) Local officials established in the locality; c) manual agricultural workers; d) Youth of the married settlers. Such places can be assigned free of charge to local public institutions, in order to build public places. + Article 36 The lots of houses sold in cities based on various impropriety laws after 1918, can only be trained with the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains. Any sale without this approval is null and void. This provision will be entered ex officio in the land register and in the transcriptions registers. + Article 37 The lands forming the real estate fund of colonization, which are not yet attributed to the settlers, will be administered by the Commercial Service of Colonization, tendering at auction or by invoking. + Article 38 After the needs of the settlers were satisfied, the material of the buildings that entered the patrimony of the Romanian State, through the convention with the Turkish State, published in the Official Gazette No. 264 of 1936, can be sold by good agreement to other inhabitants from those communes. + Article 39 The Ministry of Agriculture and Domains the Commercial Service of Colonization, is authorized to sell by good agreement the portions of land that, because of their reduced extent or poor quality, cannot form consignments of colonization, but only settlers, giving preference to neighbors and only at the price of the day and with full payment. + Article 40 By derogation from art. 14, the rates from the price of settlement lots sold to settlers in the counties with land books through the acts concluded before the present law, become due to the date of signing by the parties the acts of sale-purchase, regardless of whether these acts have been filed or not with the land registry courts for intabulation. The settlers who were debited with the price from the date of the sale of the sales documents, although these acts were signed at least one year before this date, will be able to ask for the restoration of these debits, starting from the date of signing, reducing their The flow rates on this time frame. + Article 41 The sales authorizations with the division of the lots given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains of the settlers, if until the publication of the present law the sales contract has not been concluded, are and remain void. The terms relative to the divisibility of the lots, provided for in the sales contracts concluded between the State and the settler, will no longer produce any effect from the date of entry into force of the present law, the settlers cannot invoke rights won on their basis. The legal acts by which, pursuant to such clauses, was ordered until the entry into force of this law on one side of the lot, are and remain valid. + Article 42 All dispossession actions introduced on the basis of the law on settlement of July 17, 1930 and the law on settlement regime of April 7, 1936 and which are still pending on the date of publication of this law, will continue their course if The grounds of law are also maintained by this law. Otherwise, the shares will continue their course only after they are modified for the purposes of the new dispositions. + Article 43 All settlers will enjoy for 10 years of exemption from any taxes to the State and Tinut. The term exemption begins from the possession, and for the settlers who after the possession however paid taxes, their exemption begins from the last payment made. + Article 44 All amounts owed by settlers to the State (Commercial Service of Colonization, former National Office of Colonization), up to 1 Octomvrie 1938, as arenzi for assigned lots, but not paid so far, are reduced by 50%. + Article 45 All initial debits for the reimbursement of aid granted to settlers, prior to the settlement law of July 17, 1930, for housing, are reduced by 25%, payment being made in 30 years, without interest. + Article 46 The adrenal debits set up for the use of the communal pastures awarded from the real estate fund of colonization in Dobrogea-Noua and unpaid until the publication of the present law, shall be abolished. + Article 47 The provisions contained in this law in art. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 18, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29 and 43 are also mandatory for settlement operations made by the Bank for the industrialization and valorization of agricultural products-BINAG-based on the law to finance the preemption, published in the Gazette Official No. 268, Part I, of 18 Noemvrie 1939. + Article 48 Settlers holding lots from BINAG under the law to finance the preemption of 18 Noemvrie 1939, after the full payment of the price of the lots, remain subject to all the bonds imposed on the settlers by this law and liable to the same sanctions. The control of the fulfilment of these bonds shall be exercised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, the Commercial Service of In case of dispossession of them for any of the causes provided by law, their lots pass into the patrimony of the State, the real estate fund of the settlement. + Article 49 Settlement centers will be able to be patronized with the approval of the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains by the Municipalities, urban and rural communes, public and private institutions, professional and cultural associations, which undertake to contribute alongside State to their spiritual and material propassion. + Article 50 The law on the settlement regime of April 7, 1936, is hereby repealed. It also repeals all provisions in laws and regulations contrary to the provisions of this law. + Article 51 An application regulation will unravel the provisions of this law. The same regulation will provide for the organization of the Commercial Service of Colonization This law was voted by the Assembly of Deputies at the meeting of April 17, 1940, and was unanimously adopted by one hundred and twenty votes. President, AL. VAIDA VOEVOD (L.S.A.D.). Secretary, Onufrei Lunguleac This law was voted by the Senate at the meeting of April 19, 1940 and was adopted by a majority of one hundred and twenty-five votes, against two. President, G. ARGETOIANU (L.S.S.). Secretary, Al. Samoil We promulgate this law and order that it be invested with the seal of the State and published in the Official Gazette. Given in Bucharest on 22 April 1940. CAROL (L.S. St.). Justice Minister, Istrate N. Micescu No. 1.430 ------