THE ACTIVITY OF THE PEASANTS LAND BANK 



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rural communes, and 8.1 per cent, of those owned by peasants' societies. 60,892 

 properties put up for auction, or 96.7 per cent, of them, were withdrawr , 

 either because the debtors paid their arrears (in 37,449 cases), or because 

 the bank made some concession or simply granted a prorogation (20,839 

 cases) or for other and various reasons (2,604 cases). Of the remaining 

 2,092 properties 91 were sold b}'' auction and the other 1,990 remained to 

 the bank. The following table gives a complete idea of the sales by 

 auction in this third period. 



Table IV. — Number of Properties sold by Public Auction 

 in the Third Period. 



Number % 



of % Total area of total 



properties of total of lands area 



Year sold lands sold of lands 



bj- auctiou mortgaged — mortgaged 



— — — deciatiues — 



I915 91 0.022 I.415 0.008 



1914 75 0.018 1.399 0.007 



I913 127 0.038 3,125 0.020 



1912 69 0.024 i>538 o.oio 



I9II 31 0.015 1. 144 0.009 



I9I0 26 0.019 740 0.007 



1909 25 0.029 4412 0.014 



1908 II 0.016 2,966 0.033 



1907 12 0.019 2,633 0.032 



The following table is significant. It shows the number of properties 

 put up for public auction and the number of such which were left to the bank 

 from 1907 to 1 91 5. 



Table V. — Sales by Public Auction from 1907 to 1915. 



Year 



I915 2,092 



I914 



T9I3 



I9I2 



I9II 



I9IO 



1909 



1908 



1907 



