_Householders._ _Number._ _Per _Votes._ cent._ Total allotted 140 100 Total. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In good standing (tilling their total plots) 52 37 Against the subdivision. Destitute 88 63 In favor of the subdivision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 93 66⅔ Vote required. 93 - 88 = 5 Votes deficient. (_Cf. ib._, p. 16.) 2. Bailiwick Ostrokamenskaya, district of Dankoff: “The question of subdivision is brought up for discussion in only three communities. In none of the others does it attract serious attention. In all probability this is to be accounted for by the unsatisfactory quality of the soil, as well as by the great number of families who have at length fallen into destitution and lease their lots.” (_Loc. cit._, part II., p. 211.) Let us now compare the figures: _Householders _Lessors._ _Former serfs._ _Communities._ allotted._ _Number._ _Per cent._ Bailiwick Ostrokamenskaya 15 372 79 21 Throughout the districts (former serfs) 25 It is evident that if the reason given by the statistician is true for the bailiwick in question, it holds good _a fortiori_ for the region at large, where the average percentage of lessors is even greater. The correctness of this explanation is strikingly proved by the figures for the adjacent bailiwick Znamenskaya, Dankoff. _Householders _Lessors._ _Communities._ allotted._ _Number._ _Per cent._ Subdivision out of order 15 370 167 45 (_Loc. cit._, pp. 248, 110-129.) As the shares of about one-half of the village are held by the other half, the latter has no practical interest in the redivision. Were it not so, however, a unanimous vote of the farming half could not possibly effect the redivision. 3. Village Troitzkoye, the same bailiwick, Ranenburg, “There is some talk about subdivision, yet it is very hard to have it passed here. A good many are so impoverished that they show no interest in the question of increasing the amount of their land, for, in any event, it would have to be let out; while the redivision would bring prejudice to the lessees, and there are many of them.” (_Loc. cit._, part I., p. 310.) Let us show it in figures: