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order that the building of houses and the actual work of cultivation may 

 be commenced. 



The ground is divided up into holdings of such size as may be found 

 suitable for each separate district and is transferred to the settlers 

 either by sale or on lease. The settler must have a capital of between 

 Kr. 1,500 as the minimum and Kr. 15,000 as the maximum. Every hol- 

 ding ought as a rule to be so large that a horse can be kept. 



The settlers themselves as a rule carry out the work of breaking up 

 the land for cultivation and the erection of buildings on the holdings. 



For loans obtained from The Norwegian Smallholders and Dwellings 

 Bank (Den norske sniaabruk og boligbank) or from The Norwegian Credit 

 Society for Ag'riculture and Forestry (Norges Kreditforening for Land- 

 og Skogbruk) for the acquirement of the holding and for the erection 

 of buildings the State for the present pays the interest for the first 

 5 )'ears after the taking up of the loan. 



For the erection of out-houses the State makes a grant of up to one 

 third of the cost of the buildings. The State grant cannot, however, 

 exceed Kr. 1,000 per hectare of land suitable for cultivation, and the 

 total grant to one holding cannot be more than Kr. 5,000. 



The minimum size of the holdings to which a grant is made for the 

 erection of buildings shall as a rule be 2 hectares. 



For the work of bringing the land into cultivation the settler re- 

 ceives a loan or grant according to the rules applying for the giving 

 of loans and grants. 



As direct State contribution to the work of land-cultivation and to 

 colonisation for the financial year 1920 — 21 there has been voted on the 

 extraordinary budget Kr. 5,000,000, and, in addition, Kr. 1,400,000 on the 

 ordinary budget. 



For the financial year 1921 — 22 there has been voted Kr. 2,700,000 

 as direct contribution towards land-cultivation and towards the re- 

 duction of interest on loans for land-cultivation purposes, as well as 

 Kr. 1,300,000 for colonisation. 



Of the sum voted for colonisation purposes Kr. 1,000,000 is to be 

 placed at the disposal of the colonisation society «New Land« (Ny Jord). 



This latter society was founded in 1908 by various organisations in 

 connection with agriculture, commerce, handicrafts and industry. It was 

 originally called »The Society for the Restriction of Emigration*, and 

 its object was to work against excessive emigration to foreign countries" 

 as well as to afford guidance to emigrants who might wish to return 

 home. But in addition to this work the society from the very begin- 

 ning also devoted itself to practical tasks with the object of securing for 

 the greatest possible number of our young people room to live and better 

 working conditions within the limits of their own country. Its activities 

 have gone more and more in this direction, so that the work of coloni- 

 sation has now become the chief task of the society. 



The society operates partly with its own resources and partly with 

 the help of grants from the State. The contribution from the State has. 



