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legal possession has been recorded, the authority that has given the legal possession shall also give to the cultivator or colonist a certified copy of the final adjudication; which copy, when registered, shall constitute a legal title of ownership of such land."
The legal possession of land thus adjudicated was to be given to the interested party in accordance With Art. 932 of the Fiscal Code, which reads as follows: "When the adjudication made to one or more persons is made by virtue of their being cultivators or colonists, possession to the land adjudicated shall not be given by judicial authority, but by administrative authority, for which purpose the Governor of the State, or the Prefect of the territory in which such lands are located, shall direct that legal possession to such lands shall be given to the interested parties, at the same time issuing them a certified copy of the resolution of the Secretary of Finance granting adjudication, which certified copy shall to all effects constitute a legal title of ownership to such land."
Public lands to be used for public purposes, such as roads, docks, wharfs, canals, harbors, etc., were not liable to adjudication to individuals, according to Arts. 882 and 918 of the Fiscal Code, which read as follows:
Art. No. 882 of Fiscal Code: "The public lands which in the judgment of the Executive Power are not considered necessary- for public use, can be granted to individuals, by sale for cash, or in exchange for Government bonds, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Arts. 868 and 869."
Art. No. 918 of Fiscal Code: "Provisional adjudication shall not be given if in the judgment of the Governor or Prefect of the territory the public lands in question, or any part of them, should be reserved for public use: such as, roads, town sites, forts, harbors, arsenals, docks, canals, etc."
Art. 947 of the Fiscal Code contains the same prohibition as Art. 946, with regard to public highways, and therefore, to canals; reserving to the nation the right of use of all public lands adjoining such highways. This for the purpose of adjudicating them to the companies undertaking the enterprise of constructing such highways. Art. 948.
From the foregoing it can readily be seen that although

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