+-------------------+-------+--------+-----------+----------------------+ | | | |Households.| Land (Dessiatines.) | | |Commu- |Revision+-----+-----+------+--------+------+ | Title of |nities.| males. | | | | To one |To one| | Possession. | | |Num- |Per |Total.|revision|house-| | | | |ber. |cent.| | male. |hold. | +-------------------+-------+--------+-----+-----+------+--------+------+ |Communal land: | | | | | | | | | _a._ allotted | 28 | 465 | 158 | 100 | 1180| 2.5 | 7.5 | | _b._ rented | | | ? | | 314| | | |Tenure from | | | 107 | 68 | 666| | 6.2 | | landlords | | | | | | | | |Private property | | | 14 | 9 | 147| | 10.5 | | | | +-----+-----+ | | | | | | | 121 | 77 | | | | | +-------+--------+-----+-----+------+--------+------+ |In all | 28 | 465 | 158 | 100 | 2307| 5.0 | 14.6 | |Total in the region| | | | | | | | | (allotted land) | 653 | 90031 |36126| |294443| 3.3 | 8.1 | +-------------------+-------+--------+-----+-----+------+--------+------+ Still land tenure is unequally distributed among the peasantry, thanks to legal discrimination. The main distinctions date from the reforms of 1861 and 1866. Here is the proportion of land to population in the several classes of the peasantry of our region: +-----------------------+----------------+----------------+ | | In every 100. |To each peasant.| |Districts and Classes. +---------+------+----------------+ | |Peasants.| Dessiatines. | +-----------------------+---------+------+----------------+ |_Ranenburg_: | | | | | Former serfs | 59.9 | 45.4 | 1.0 | | Former state peasants| 39.9 | 54.4 | 1.7 | | | | | | |_Dankoff_: | | | | | Former serfs | 64.1 | 50.0 | 1.1 | | Former state peasants| 35.4 | 49.4 | 1.9 | +-----------------------+---------+------+----------------+ That the disproportion is not the result of subsequent alterations in population or property can be seen from the comparison between the average lot fixed by law for the former serf in 1861, and that given to the former state peasant in 1866: