Part IV: Agricultural Economy in General 



GERMANY. 



RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE DESTRUCTION FOIvLOWING 

 ON EVENTS OF THE WAR IN EAST PRUSSIA. 



OFFICIAIy SOURCE : 



Verordnung betrefend die umleguno von CtRundstucken in der Provtnz Ostpreussen 

 {Ordinance as to the Redistribution of Pieces of Land in the Province of East Prussia) . — Preus- 

 sische Gesetzsammlung, No. 51, 191 5 



The legislative measures adopted for reconstruction/ in the districts of 

 East Prussia destroyed or damaged during the military operations which 

 took place in the beginning of the war, are the results of legislative work 

 extending over all 1915. They cover of course very important questions as 

 to redistribution and the creation of mortgages,, and are in these respects the 

 evidence of a methodically elaborated S5''stero. To study it cannot be other 

 than interesting from a general point of view; and will give a hint of possible 

 enterprise which would complete the means of interior colonization already 

 habitual. 



The measiires are justified by the events which caused them and by 

 the tenour of the Prussian constitution of 1850. Article 63 of this allows 

 the king to legislate in case of urgency. Accordingly on 15 January 1915 

 a first royal ordinance authorized the Higher President of the province, with 

 the consent of the provincial council, to apply, in those urban districts and 

 rural communes having more than 2000 inhabitants which had been ra- 

 vaged by the war, the provisions of thelavv of 28 July 1902 — 8 J.ul}^ 1907 as 

 to the m.odificatioti of the position of real estate in Frankfort-on -Maine. 

 Subreqiiently on 11 December 1915 a second royal ordinance introduced into 

 the first certain modifications which did not however prevent the essential 

 prescriptions of the cited law from being maintained. The unified text, 



