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9) A request for the revision of an indemnity is not acceded to unless 

 it be proved that the first pa3'ment was made erroneously or unless the vic- 

 tim's physical condition be further modified as a result of the accident. Such 

 request ma}^ be made only once, and not earlier than three months — or 

 one month in the case of a death — after the pa^'ment of the indemnitj-. 



10) Action to obtain the indemnity must be taken within six months 

 after the occurrence of the accident as determined by the certificate and the 

 judgement of the magistrate. 



11) The principle of free choice of an insuring establishment is main- 

 tained. It is included in the law already mentioned, as to the accidents of 

 industrial labour. 



12) The extent of the property in relation to its various crops, all of 

 which must be mentioned and classified in the rules, is taken as a basis for 

 fixing the insurance premium. 



For small properties having an area of less than half a hectare (i) the 

 premium is halved. 



13) The determination of disputes as to the nature and the impor- 

 tance of the consequences of an accident is reserved to a college of arbiters. 



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2. THE MUTUAL INSURANCE OF LIVE STOCK INTENDED FOR BUTCHERY. — 

 A. PiROCCHi in La Mutualitd Agraria, no. 30, Rome, 30 November 1916. 



In Italy since the law on sanitation of 22 December 1888 has been ap- 

 plied, an attempt has been made to compensate for looses consequent on the 

 sequestration of butchers' meat, by insuring the animals with associations 

 constituted on the principle of mutuality, by forming municipal insurance 

 associations, or by insuring them with private joint stock societies. A great 

 association formed for this purpose was active in North Ital^^ but failed 

 and went into liquidation. On the other hand small societies, each of them 

 active in a more or less limited sphere, as for instance a slaiighterhouse, 

 have had better results. The most important of these are the slaughter- 

 houses of Milan, Turin, Rome, Mantua, Bergamo, Bologna, Florence and 

 Naples. It will certainly be useful to show the organization and results of 

 one of them, that of Milan, the growth of which is apparent from the fol- 

 lowing figures. 



(i) I hectare = 2.47 acres. 



