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the "egna hem" ("oavn home") movement.
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(skrivelse) to the King, requesting an investigation (utredning) in the
matter. A Committee was appointed for this purpose in the same year,
and on the basis of these proposals a Government on the subject was
introduced into the Riksdag in 1904. The Government proposals were adopted
in essentials, and the Riksdag 1905 resolved to vote a sum of 10 million
kronor for this purpose.
Farm House, Central Sweden.
Under the terms of this Act loans shall not be granted by the State, direct
to intending founders of "egna hem", but through the medium of institutions
termed "låneförmedlare". These intermediaries interposed between the State and
the "settlers" are either (1) the Provincial Agricultural Societies
(hushållningssällskapJ, or else (2), entirely private institutions, namely those companies and
societies called respectively "egnahemsbolag" and "egnahemsföreningar", so
organized and governed that they afford the State a satisfactory guarantee that the
object of the State aid which passes through their hands shall actually be
attained. The essential formal criterium in this regard is that companies or
societies, in order to be approved as agencies for negotiating these State loans,
shall not give their shareholders a greater dividend on the capital invested by
them than has been determined in the articles of association or statutes,
and that the regulations in this regard shall not, as long as the company or
society holds State loans, be altered without the consent of Government. In
accordance with these provisions, considerable funds are made over by the State
to these institutions; the institutions in turn pass them on to the "settlers",
collect the interests and instalments, and have something to say as to the
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