State Act
Section 1
Art. 1–The 1[comunidades] or 2[gauncarias’] (association of gaucares) existing in the District of Goa shall be governed by the provisions of the present 3[Code], and in particular, by the specific statutes governing each of them and in matters where the code is silent, the general law shall apply. § 1. A group of two or more comunidades under one single administrator or the group of several villages forming one single Comunidade is called 4[Torofo] – (group of comunidades) and the provisions by which the comunidades are governed shall be applicable to them. § 2. By statute it implies any written instrument or regulation by which a Comunidade had been governed, and in absence of these, by the practice invariably observed at least for 50 years prior to 1904. § 3. The statute of the comunidades of Goa, Salsete, Bardez, Mormugao are, as mentioned in map 8 which forms an integral part of this code and that of to the other comunidades, shall be formulated within a period of six months from the date of publication of this code by the respective administrative boards and submitted for the approval of the Government which also, after the approval, shall form integral part of the same Map.