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v. social movements.
by the less well-to-do classes for whom they were primarily and
originally intended. However, the number of sales of holdings under the
provisions of the Act of 1909, from 1910 to 1912, did not figure out
at more than three hundred.
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Plan of Small Farm Stable, Central Sweden.
The above data, however, have reference only to South and Central
Sweden. The question of providing facilities for establishing
"settlements" in the sparsely populated läns of Northern Sweden has been
vivaciously discussed, and bills repeatedly brought forward on the
subject, in the Riksdag. The first positive result in this direction
that falls to be recorded is the law passed by the Riksdag in
1891, providing for sales of suitable holdings from the Crown demesnes
to be cultivated as "forest crofts" (skogstorp). In 1904 the Riksdag
introduced certain amendments intended to ameliorate the "forest crofter’s"
condition, and in 1909 a law was passed whereby sweeping changes were
made in the legislation on the subject. The effect of this amending Act
was that (1) these sales of holdings were extended to all the six läns of
Norrland (the Northern division of Sweden), and that (2) persons desirous
of establishing "homes of their own" received more efficient State aid in
furtherance of this object, and in certain respects more favourable terms
of sale. Nevertheless, the result of these measures has been decidedly
meagre, both in quality and in quantity: the number of sales up to the
present moment of writing is not more than 1 204, out of which 338 fall
under the provisions of the Act of 1909. The consequence was that in 1913
a Government Bill was brought before the Riksdag, providing for a
number of modifications in the preceding Act, whereby its terms were
tempered in favour of the "settlers".
In the meantime the idea had matured of affording more effective
assistance to those about to establish "egna hem" by supplying them
with State loans at easy rates.
In 1899 bills were introduced into the Riksdag for granting State
loans to these "settlers"; the outcome af these bills was a "petition"
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