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These lands were sold to the followdng categories of purchasers : 



Tabble XIX. — Categories of Purchasers. 



Categories 



Individiials . . 

 Rural Societies 

 Rnral Communes 



Percentage of total sum of loans granted to each category 

 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 igii 1912 1913 1914 1915 



18.7 18.5 28.4 62.1 76.1 82.8 82.9 80.8 76.1 73.2 

 68.3 66.2 60.4 34.7 22.3 16.4 16.2 18.4 23.0 25.6 

 13-3 15-3 10.7 3.2 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.9 1.2 



Categories 



Individuals . . 

 Rural Societies 

 Rtiral Commtmes 



Percentage of total area of lands bought by eadi category. 



1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 



1.5 1.6 3.8 10.4 19.6 30.3 35.2 35.2 31.9 28.4 



63.4 60.7 68.8 76.1 64.9 63.3 59.8 59.7 64.1 63.5 



35-1 37-7 27.4 13.5 15.5 6.4 5.0 5.0 4.1 8.1 



As is seen from this table the number of transactions with individuals 

 increased progressively as did also the area sold as private property. But 

 the peasants, being much freer in their purchases, prefer to buy property 

 which they can make collective. At the bank's request they determine 

 in detail the share belonging to each member of a society so formed. 



Most of the land sold to peasants as private property was in the form 

 of lots largely in excess of the average area of peasant holdings, both in 

 all Russia and in its various districts. Thus the following table shows that 

 more than half the purchases were of areas of from ten to fifty deci^itines. 



Tabi,E XX. — Percentage of Lands Bought belonging 

 to the Various Categories of Area. 



During the third period loans amounting to 885,679,291 roubles were 

 granted and were used to buy 7,979,570 decintines. 



