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b) It must he accepted by an absolute majority of all the inhabi - 

 tants registered by the census of the commune. 



3. The distribution among the members of the commune will be 

 made by the communal authorities, assisted b^' a surve^'or. 



4. Before a distribution is made the land which it should not affect, 

 that is the land which will remain the commune's property, will be 

 surrounded b^^ a hedge. 



Hitherto 12,000 hectares have been distributed in fourteen communes, 

 in accordance with this law. 



§ 5. Redivision. 



We will devote a few words to the problem of redi vision. 



It has already been said that landed property in Dalmatia is too much 

 scattered, many proprietors owning from fifty to eighty parcels of land. 



In -vdew of this state of affairs redivision would be very useful. It 

 is however very rarely proposed and the law on subidvision promulgated 

 in 18S3 has never been applied. The reason for these circumstances is 

 not hard to seek. 



The problems of the farming contracts and of the distribution of 

 landed property are distinct. That of division cannot however be solved 

 finally, in view of existing agrarian relations, until after the two former. 

 If a redivision were to be undertaken today it could be only provisional 

 and would have to be renewed after the other two problems had been 

 solved. 



Owing to such dependence on other questions redivision cannot be 

 considered in isolation. Redivision was last proposed in 19 10 by Deputy 

 Sununcitch, who suggested that it should be undertaken simultaneously 

 with the solution of the problems of the farming contracts and of the 

 di'^tribution of communal property, 



