State Act
Section 296
Art. 296 – Each cultivator can only take on lease one or more lots whose total gross production does not exceed 20 77[candils] of 160 litres each, when the number of his family members is not more than five, to 25 candils when that number does not exceed eight and to 30 candils when the family members exceed more than eight, on the pain of the contract being nullified. § 1. A tolerance up to one candil may be permitted safeguarding also the case in which a single lot has production beyond the limit fixed. § 2. On the recommendation from the administrator, at least ninety days prior to the auction, the 78[Government] can reduce the limit fixed in the body of this article, in the comunidades when there is a justified need of better distribution of the fields. § 3. For the purposes of restriction foreseen in this article, it shall be taken into account the production of the paddy fields of the cultivator itself and his family or even of the paddy fields of other individuals singular or collective, taken on rent by them.