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 value of the improvements and betterments that he delivers in good order and that he has effected at his expense with the express or tacit consent of the owner, or because they were required by the exploitation of the realty, because of its use.

The lessee shall not be entitled to the said compensation if the contract is terminated ahead of time because of his fault, or when he refuses an extension offered him under the same conditions in force when the contract expires.

Crop lien and cane-grinding contracts, as well as the delivery of other products by those who produce them, shall also be regulated by law, granting the former due protection.

275. The planting and grinding of administration cane shall be regulated by law. being reduced to the minimum limit imposed by the social-economic need for maintaining the sugar industry on a basis of separation of the two large factors which concur in its development: industrialists, or sugar producers, and farmers or planters, who produce the cane.

276. Laws and provisions which create private monopolies, or which regulate commerce, industry and agriculture in such a manner as to produce that result, shall be null and void. The law shall especially provide that commercial activities in centres of agricultural and industrial labour cannot be monopolised for private benefit.

277. Public services, whether national or local, shall be considered of social interest. In consequence, the Nation, the Provinces and the Municipalities, in their respective cases, shall be entitled to supervise them, issuing the necessary measures for the purpose.

278. No consumption tax shall be imposed on any domestic raw material which, whether or not it is a product of agriculture, is destined for manufacturing or exportation.

Nor shall any consumption tax be imposed on the products of domestic industry, if the same or similar products or substitutes imported from abroad cannot be taxed in like manner.

279. The Nation shall maintain the independence of the private institutions of social welfare and co-operation that are normally maintained without the aid of public funds, and shall contribute to their development by means of adequate legislation.

280. Money and banking shall be subject to regulation and check by the Nation.