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the roads are marked out and the boundaries fixed on the spot : after which 

 the agent entrusted with the direction of the work of land readjustment 

 summons those concerned to a general meeting. He submits the plan of 

 the new readjustment to the peasants and takes note of any objections that 

 may be made. If he considers them reasonable, he arranges for the rehand- 

 Hng of the plan. If there are no further objections, or if those made are 

 considered unreasonable by the agent, a report is prepared : a term of 

 a month is allowed for those concerned to make further objections ; these 

 must be addressed to the land commission of the district, to which the papers 

 (dociunents and reports) relating to the readjustment are forwarded. The 

 Commission approves the draft plan and those interested have the right 

 to forward any objections they may have, to the provincial agricultural 

 commission. ^Notwithstanding the minute details of this procedure, not 

 at all bureaucratic however, since it leaves the local agricultural popula- 

 tion considerable influence both in the practical execution of the work and 

 the solution of legal problems (half the members of the land commissions 

 are peasants), the whole work of land readjustment has made, as we have 

 said, extraordinary progress, and this is true especially of individual farm 

 readjustment, which presented complicated diffictilties and required consid- 

 erable time. To complete the figures given already we reproduce in the 

 following table a specification of the work of readjustment in conformity 

 with what has been above stated. 



Table VIII. — Specific Report of the Work 

 of Individual Farm Readjustment Carried out in the Years 1907-11. 



