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 Concessions for industrial and commercial marks (trademarks) and other recognitions of commercial reputation, with indications of Cuban origin, shall be null if they are used in any manner to protect or cover articles manufactured outside of the national territory.

93. No perpetual encumbrances can be imposed on property, in the form of “censos’ and others of analogous nature, and their establishment is therefore prohibited. Congress shall, within a period of 3 sessions, approve a law regulating the liquidation of existing ones.

“Censos” or encumbrances already established or that may be established for the benefit of the Nation, the Province or the Municipality, or in favour of public institutions of all kinds or of private beneficent institutions, are excepted from the provisions of the foregoing paragraph.

94. It is an obligation of the Nation to take a census of the population each 10 years, that will reflect all economic and social activities of the country, and also to publish regularly a statistical annual.

95. Property of beneficent institutions is declared nonproscribable.

96. Parcels of land that were donated by persons of the old Spanish nobility for the foundation of a town or city and were actually used for that purpose, acquiring the character of a Municipality, but were subsequently occupied or recorded by the heirs or successors of the donor, are declared of public utility and consequently subject to expropriation by the Nation, Province or Municipality.

Residents of said town or city who possess buildings or occupy lots in the urbanised part can obtain from the expropriating entity the conveyance of the ownership and possession of the lots or parcels they occupy, by means of payment of the corresponding proportional price.

97. Universal, equal and secret suffrage is established for all Cuban citizens, as a right, duty and function.

This function shall be obligatory; and every one who fails to vote at an election or referendum, except for a reason admitted by law, shall be subject to the penalties imposed on him by law and shall be ineligible to hold any magistracy