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The rural banks are variously distributed in the kingdom. The region 

 in which there are most is Venetia, where there are 427 or more than 

 a quarter of the whole number. Then come Emilia with 298 banks, 

 Sicily with 235, Lombardy with 204 and Piedmont with 162. The region 

 in which these banks have the largest amount of deposits is Sicily. The 

 amount of deposits in the Sicilian rural banks is about a fourth of that in 

 all the banks, as it is 24,045,680 frs. In the province of Caltanissetta alone 

 the deposits on December 31st., 1913 amounted to 10,565,241 frs. After 

 Sicily come Lombardy and Venetia, with almost equal amounts and then 

 EmiUa and Piedmont. 



