6o GERMANY .- AGRICUI,TURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



gistration of the opening of x^roceedings will be communicated by the office 

 ' to the commission. 



3. Principles of Redistribution. — Real estate intended for redistribu- 

 tion and existing public roads and squares will be massed. When allotment 

 is made the land necessary for the public roads and squares will first be 

 set aside and transmitted to the commune or any other body responsible 

 for maintaining the roads. 



The remaining land will be divided among the landowners with a view 

 to equity and the best means of attaining the object of the redistribution. 

 As much as possible, the part which each landowner previously held of the 

 total area will be taken into account. The lots should stand at right an- 

 gles with the streets and be remitted to the landowners in their former con- 

 dition. The sites of buildings, for which a special indemnity would be 

 payable, should be left to the existing owners. 



Coproprietorship or a former common employment of property will 

 be ended by assigning to eacji interested owner an isolated lot corresj^on- 

 ding to his previous partner's right. 



The question of indemnities is met and treated in equal detail. An 

 indemnity will be granted for land employed with a view to the establish- 

 ment of public roads and squares in excess of the area of those included in 

 the massed real estate, if this land surpasses that contributed by the pro- 

 prietors by 35 per cent, when redistribution is undertaken at the request 

 of the municipality, or by 40 per cent, when it is undertaken at the request 

 of the proprietors. 



In addition to their right to allotments proprietors have the right to 

 pecuniary indemnification, a) for buildings or other accessory^ or essential 

 parts of the redistributed real estate taken from them ; h) for the deprecia- 

 tion of redistributed real estate unless the lot assigned to the owner is equi- 

 valent compensation ; c) for the loss of an industry based on the use of the 

 real estate. It should be noticed on the other hand that any appreciation 

 of the real estate consequent on the redistribution is left out of account. If 

 however the real estate to be redistributed is burdened with dues, the com- 

 mission may oblige the owner to pay a sum equal at least to the value by 

 which the real estate was depreciated for him by such dues. 



If the parcels to be assigned are too small they will be fused. If they 

 ought to be assigned to several owners they will be assigned to them en 

 bloc in coproprietorship, mention being made of the individual interest 

 of each and the various charges which each incurs ; for it seems that it 

 will be possible to extinguish coproprietorship only when the isolated par- 

 cels are sufficiently extensive to allow of building. If no agreement is 

 reached the whole indemnity should be allotted only in money but the sum 

 with which the proprietor has been charged as a contribution to redistri- 

 tion will be substracted from its amount. 



It is the commission which decides on the possibility of building after 

 having heard the advice of the authority responsible for the control of 

 buildings. 



Interested persons whose rights in the real estate are suppressed or 



