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of 2g.4 deciatines. there are leaseholds. The circumstance cannot be 

 ascribed to scarcity- of land but to the cause which has given rise to lease- 

 holds on nadiel lands, namely the endeavour of the peasants to enlarge 

 their farms, to extend their property. 



§ 7. Financial support of the peasants under the land 

 settlement. 



When the land was settled money was assured to the peasants, both 

 for removing their farm buildings and for carrying out the simple improve- 

 ments prescribed, in the form either of a loan or a gift. The amounts 

 of the sums thus expended on the farms on nadiel land and on bank and 

 State domains within each province are shown in the following table : 



Financial Sttpport given to the Population when the Land was Settled. 



a) On Nadiel Land. 



Total for all prov. 



No. of farmers moving their homesteads 3,781 



They received from Credit of the Land Settlement: 



_ i No 1,522 



I Amoimt in roubles (i) 165,944 



Gifts * "^^ ^4° 



' Amount in roubles 8,177 



No. of farmers not moving their homesteads 11,154 



They received from the Credit of the Land Settlement : 



Loans ^ ^° 9°^ 



\ Amount in roubles. 81,022 



Gifts • ^°" • • •' ^^2 



/ Amount in roubles 5, 861 



b) On Lands of the Bank and State Domains. 



To those moving their homesteads the Land Settlement Credit paid: 



Loans 1,805 



Gifts 149 



To those not moving their homesteads the Land Settlement Credit 

 paid: 



Loans 94 



Gifts - 3 



Total of: 



Loans in roubles 231,288 



Gifts in roubles 9,097 



(i) I rouble of 100 kopecks ^ about 2s. i l^rf. at par. 



