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If the term "private agricultural lands" is to be construed as not including residential lots or
lands not strictly agricultural, the result would be that "aliens may freely acquire and
possess not only residential lots and houses for themselves but entire subdivisions, and
whole towns and cities," and that "they may validly buy and hold in their names lands of
any area for building homes, factories, industrial plants, fisheries, hatcheries, schools,
health and vacation resorts, markets, golf courses, playgrounds, airfields, and a host of
other uses and purposes that are not, in appellant's words, strictly agricultural.
This constitutional intent is made more patent and is strongly implemented by an act of
the National Assembly passed soon after the Constitution was approved. We are referring
again to Commonwealth Act No. 141. Prior to the Constitution, there were in the Public
Land Act No. 2874 sections 120 and 121 which granted aliens the right to acquire private
lands only by way of reciprocity. It is to be observed that the phrase "no land" used in
these section refers to all private lands, whether strictly agricultural, residential or
otherwise.
It is said that the lot in question does not come within the purview of sections 122 and 123
of Commonwealth Act No. 141, there being no proof that the same had been acquired by
one of the means provided in said provisions. We are not, however, deciding the instant
case under the provisions of the Public Land Act, which have to refer to lands that had