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4th., Statistics of Landowners. — The work of valuation has provided 

 the occasion and the means for an approximate estimation of the number 

 of.^landowners. In order to arrive at it, the following course was adopted, 

 lowed, each commune being taken in turn: 



From the number of tax papers 13,440,226 



Deduction has been made of the following, either 

 as they do not correspond with landowners or 

 correspond \vith those elsewhere considered: 



1st. Papers referring to collective holdings .... 583,841 



2nd. Multiple papers (that is those for a single land- 

 owner), (only one being retained) 322,612 



3rd. Papers referring to landowners not resident 



in the commune under consideration 5,727,454 



6,333,907 6,333,907 



lycaving a balance of tax papers corresponding with 



landowners 6,800,319 



Then in order to arrive at the real number of land- 

 owners, there were added to the above : 



1st. the number of joint landowners on the papers for 



collective holdings, not taxed separately . . . 396,877 



2nd. The landowner? not paying land tax in the com- 

 mune where they are domiciled 317,726 



714,603 714,603 

 This addition, which was necessary as the corre- 

 sponding papers had not been counted in the com- 

 munes where the holdings were situated, raised 



the total number of landowners to .... 7,520,922 



It seemed desirable to compare the number of landholders arrived at 

 in this way with the ntunber of tax papers, the number of inhabitants and 

 households, according to the census of 191 1. 



These comparisons give the following averages for the whole of France : 



560 landowners per 1,000 tax papers 

 195 " " 1,000 inhabitants 



756 " " 1,000 households. 



These averages naturally vary with the region. Thus, the nmnber 

 of landowners per 1,000 land tax papers is only 364 in Aube, and 399 

 in Yonne ; it is 



between 404 and 500 in 19 departments 



501 " 600 "34 



601 " 700 "20 



701 " 800 "II 



and is 857 in Morbihan, 



