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orders of Count and Baron, but these may noAV be regarded in 
the same light as other ])ropriotors. (Jf counties there are 
18, of baronies 14, and of other entailed estates 37, in the king- 
dom ; by the constitution of 1849 no property can now be 
t3ntailed. 
In Sleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, there are 276 privileged 
estates, either entailed or not ; in either case the privileges belong 
to the proprietors, whether by entail or purchase ; they chiefly 
<;onsist in freedom from certain taxes, in voting at election of 
members to the Diet, or of clergymen, judicial officers, &c. In 
Sleswig some of these privileges have been rescinded of late 
years. 
The second class of properties in Denmark Proper consists of 
.large estates (llerregaarde), which, though not entailed, formerly 
possessed privileges now abolished ; of these there are at present 
in the kingdom 793. 
In the duchies such estates can scarcely be said to exist. 
A separate subdivision of these estates is formed by those 
belonging to different public, charitable, or other institutions. 
The University of Copenhagen, for instance, possesses land to 
the extent of 40,500 aci'es ; the college of Soro 58,750 acres ; 
the provincial municipal corporations in the kingdom 80,625 
acres, &c. The total area of such estates in the country may be 
estimated at 31,500 tons of " Hartkorn" (393,750 acres). 
But most of the land in Denmark comes under the head of 
\eomen-farms (Bondegaarde), as every property is called having 
an area of land varying from 1 to 12 tons of "Hartkorn," or 
12J to 150 acres. Of the 377,860 tons of " Hartkorn " in Den- 
mark the said farms comprise 314,843 ; the larger piivate estates 
35,264 ; the municipal corporation 6456, and properties of less 
than 1 ton of "Hartkorn" 21,297. The yeomen-farms in the 
kingdom number about 70,000, of which about half have from 
4 to 8 tons of " Hartkorn." 
In Sleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, there are about 32,000 
similar farms, called Hofs or Boel, besides smaller ones. 
There is a great variety in the size or extent of the properties 
in the different provinces. Thus on the islands, and especially 
on Sealand, there are comparatively many more large estates than 
in Jutland, and in the north-east part of Jutland more than in 
the rest of that province. 
The northern part of Sleswig consists principally of yeomen's 
farms ; but the south-east coast of Sleswig and the east coast 
of Holstein contain the greatest number of large estates which 
is to be found in the monarchy. Statistical accounts bearing on 
these duchies are, however, very deficient on the subject of agri- 
