Section 10
SEC. 10. To foster or insure the success of a settlement district, the Director of Lands, on recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, shall grant title to the property applied for by the settler, subject to the following terms which the applicant must accept under oath: The settler must, during the time that he occupies the land, cultivate at least sixty per centum of the area thereof each year. The heirs and assigns of the applicant shall likewise be subject to these conditions. Beginning on April first of the fifth year after the occupation of the land, the settler, his heirs and assigns, shall refund to the settlement district superintendent, in ten equal annual installments, the expenses incurred in surveying, clearing, and breaking the land, and the cost of the house, carabaos, implements, and seeds furnished to him, with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum. In case any occupant, his heirs and assigns, should without good reason fail to cultivate at least sixty per centum of the area of the land occupied by him or them for three consecutive years during their occupation, before having completely paid their indebtedness in accordance with the next preceding paragraph, unless prevented by force majeure, the title to said land shall, after due investigation by the settlement district superintendent, be revoked and the property shall revert to the Government of the Philippine Islands, and the settler, his heirs and assigns, may thereafter continue to occupy the land as lessees, subject to the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b), upon payment of a monthly rental of fifty centavos per hectare from and after the date of the revocation of the title, and in case the settler, his heirs or assigns, fail to pay such rental for two consecutive months, the Secretary of Labor may eject him or them, without need of any judicial proceedings. However, the settler shall be entitled to have his rights restored to him upon payment of his indebtedness. Any transfer of the land and any contract relative to it shall be approved by the Secretary of Labor and recorded in the office of the local register of deeds, subject to the conditions prescribed in this Act. Any sale of the land shall be null and void unless the settler, his heirs or assigns, have paid the entire indebtedness to the Government before the transfer is made in accordance with this section.