78 INFORMATION REI.ATING TO CREDIT 



and their contents were deducted. 5o,oqo marks was paid into the employ- 

 ee's pension fund, which amounted on i April 1915 to 100,440.67 marks 

 and which, thanks to interest, was 104,180.67 marks at the end of March 

 1916. If the sum paid into it as above be included, its amount was 154,180.67 

 marks. 



As appears from the mortgage account, real estate was mortgaged for 

 351,000 marks. The office for mortgage loans dealt with operations fewer 

 by 420 than in the previous year. The bank sent to the loan funds all the 

 correspondence and authorities received from those interested in the land 

 register and from the creditors, so as to focus all the register's operations ; 

 and it encouraged recourse to credit by creating second mortgages, together 

 with loans on bills, and by granding extraordinary credits. 



