district. While the Government does not in theory object to the recognition of private property in Siberia, its administrative policy, unlike that in European Russia, is aimed at retaining the ground value of the land as a State property. A foreigner, however, can acquire property in Siberia, except in
| Provinces | Average head of live stock per family | Area of land sown per annum by each family | Percentage of families owning live stock | Percentage of families cultivating land under the commune | ||
| Horses | Cattle | |||||
| Tomsk Government | State land | 2·5 | 2·5 | 11½ acres | 93% | 90% |
| Cabinet | 3·7 | 3·9 | 13½ acres | 94·5% | 87% | |
| Tobolsk Government | 2·8 | 3·3 | 12½ acres | 91·5% | 90% | |
| Semipalatinsk and Yenisei Governments | 2·8 | 3·3 | 12½ acres | 91·5% | 90% | |
the Far East, and along the Manchurian frontier, but can hold it for the purpose of residence or for carrying on business only. Thus foreign companies can acquire real estate only if they prove to the local officials that they are acquiring such property for the purpose of carrying on some particular enterprise, for which permission must previously have been obtained from the Central Government authorities.
Thus in practice the only landed properties held by foreigners or foreign companies in Siberia are those on which minerals are worked or houses built for residence in towns. All the agricultural land is let out in large tracts to the Siberian peasants. Even the peasants only rent the land from the State on a perpetual lease, and the policy of the Government, if
