LEGISLATION AS TO THE « RENTENGUTER » 



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The purchase prices of parcels according to provinces were as follows : 



Average value 

 Area Total value per hectare 



Province — — — 



hectares marks marks 



East Prussia 44,884 37.711.053 840 



West Prussia 39-388 26,268,386 667 



Brandenburg ^.524 10,834,627 1,661 



Pomerania 78,990 96,797,355 1.225 



Posnania 17,968 18,831,009 1,048 



Silesia 9.914 13.042,479 1,316 



vSaxony 3.397 8,960,548 2,638 



Schleswig-Holstein 20,200 31,905.504 1.579 



Hanover 4.871 8,634,028 1.773 



Westphalia 4.738 12,817,339 2,705 



Hesse-Nassau 392 664^542 695 



Rhine Province 11 182,402 26,582 



In purchasing large properties for the purpose of subdivision the 

 Rentenbanken paid : 



in cash 39,860,286 marks 



in their bonds . . . . . 177,831,093 " 



in mortgages 15,208,145 



At the same time the banks 



granted to the colonists 



other loans amounting to 19,176,872 " 



