79 of July 4, 1933 shall read as follows:
"a) Up to four million colones in loans to individuals, destined for maintaining and expanding the country's agricultural production, and preferentially in loans to the current mortgage debtors of individuals or private entities for agricultural operations.
These loans shall be granted with a first-degree mortgage guarantee, on agricultural properties or the applicant's own dwelling, in amounts not exceeding twenty thousand colones per person, or the amount to be cancelled, if the property is already mortgaged, provided that it does not exceed twenty-five thousand colones; they shall accrue interest at 6% (six percent) annually and shall have an amortization of two and ten-hundredths percent (2.10%), in a cumulative fund. The Bank may lend up to sixty percent (60%) of the current value of the property offered as guarantee, when the transaction is made to cancel mortgages already constituted and provided that it is not for an amount greater than the value of that mortgage. In new loan transactions, the Bank may grant up to fifty percent (50%) of the current value of the property, but in no case may the loan amount exceed, per person, the amounts established in this subsection.
Of said four million, up to one million colones shall be allocated for small loans, which may range from fifty to two thousand five hundred colones, with mortgage, fiduciary, pledge guarantees, or certificates from deposit warehouses. These loans and the entity that shall be in charge of all of them shall be governed by a later law.
Presidential House, San José, on the third day of the month of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-three.