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 in cases of infractions in which there is no penal responsibility, for the best fulfilment of the accounting laws by all bodies subject to its check.

(h) To publish its reports for general information.

(i) To fulfil the other duties specified for it by law and the regulations.

271. The Nation shall orient the national economy for the benefit of the people, in order to insure to each individual a decorous existence.

The development of the national agriculture and industry shall be a primordial function of the Nation, which shall seek the diversification thereof as sources of public wealth and collective benefit.

272. The ownership and possession of real estate and the exploitation of agricultural, industrial, commercial, banking and any other kind of enterprises or business, by foreigners located in Cuba, or who carry on their operations in Cuba, although located outside thereof, are subject in an obligatory manner to the same conditions which the law establishes with respect to Cubans, which conditions must, in every case, accord with the social-economic interests of the Nation.

273. The increment in the value of land and of real estate, produced without effort in the form of labour or private capital, and solely as a result of the action of the Nation, a Province or a Municipality, shall accrue to the benefit of these latter in the proportional part determined by law.

274. Stipulations of lease, cane-planting or share-cropping contracts of rural properties that impose the renunciation of rights recognised in the Constitution or in the law, and also any other pacts which the law or the courts declare abusive, shall be null.

In regulating the said contracts, the adequate norms shall] be established to govern the rentals, which shall be flexible, with a maximum and a minimum depending on the use, productiveness, location and other circumstances of the leased property; to fix the minimum of duration of the said contracts, according to the said elements, and to guarantee to the lessee, planter or share-cropper a reasonable compensation for the