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 MONEY AND CREDIT

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The Bank of Russia acts in a double capacity— of State Bank and of commercial bank. It has 134 branches. The situation of the bank in 1911, was as follows (in 1,000 of roubles) :—

Assets : Cash and credit notes Portfolio

Advances, loans. Various

Total.

1,609,900

671,700

112,300

30,700

2,424,600

Liabilities : Capital and reserve Note circulation Deposits, &c. Treas. ace. current Various

Total.

55,000

1,353,600

237,300

724,200

54,500

2,424,600

The Savings Bank.s. — The number of banks and of depositors and the amount of deposits on January 1 (14) of three years were as follows : —

1910

1911

Number of savings banks

,, depositors Sums deposited.

7,051

6,939,700

1,282,900,000

7,335

7,449,000

1,398,100,000

1912

7,692

7,979,042

1,502,427,000

Mortgage Banks. —On Januaiy 1, 1912, there were in European Russia, Poland, and Caucasus, 53 mortgage banks : State Mortgage Bank for the nobility, a section of this bank, State Mortgage Bank tor the peasantry, and 50 private banks, out of which 10 are shareholders' banks and 40 town and land banks.

The number of properties mortgaged, their area and value, and the sums advanced, on January 1 of the last tive years by the State Mortgage Bank lor the nobility and its section. State Mortgage Bank for the peasantry, Land Bank of the Government of Kherson and 10 shareholders' banks are seen from the following : —

—

1907

1908 1909

1910

1911

Number of properties Acres mortgaged Value (in roubles). Sums advanced (in roubles).

144,078

142,116,744

3,635,996,387

2,047,870,225

156,473

142,568,692

3,705,744,790

2,090,090,542

174,931

147,269,635

3,917,701,973

2,217,353,732

303,188

151,366,454

4,361,199,952

2,617,200,936

The most important of the mortgage banks are :—

a. State Bank for mortgage loans to ilAe JioiiZi/!?/.— Number of properties mortgaged on January 1, 1911 : 26,560 ; acres mortgaged, 39,455,028 ; value (in roubles), 1,197,747,871 ; sums advanced, 689,350,800 roubles— Loans <Tanted : in 1906, 32,573,000 roubles ; in 1907, 26,164,000 roubles ; in 1908, 31,657,900 roubles ; in 1909, 49,701,600 roubles ; in 1910, 87,125,400 roubles.

b. Land Bank for the purchase of land by the peasants.—

190T

1908

1909

1910

Acres bought with the aid of the bank

Value in roubles

Sums lent by the bank ....

Acres bought by tlie bank

Value in roubles

2,518,430 120,59f^,984 107,831,578

6,802,881 159,142,534

2,751,052 134,007,578 116,283,714

1,544,460 54,804,441

3,312,664

172,455,504

144,497,534

466,660

19,554,708

4,183,810

204,826,402 •

162,558,320^

464,620

18,722,362

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