PART VII.
THE FORM OF TILLAGE.
Art. 35. With a view to the earliest realisation of Socialism, the State is to give every encouragement, material and moral, to the collective system of tillage, giving preference to the communist and co-operative farm management as against individual.
Art. 36. With a view to combating the interpolation, so harmful to the development of agriculture, in lands tilled by one party, of strips belonging to another, lands allotted for collective or individual tillage must, as far as possible, be concentrated on the same spot.
PART VIII.
ACQUISITION OF THE RIGHT TO USE THE LAND.
Art. 37. The right to use the land is acquired on the strength of following qualifications:—
(a) For cultural and educational purposes.
1. Public utility.
(b) For agricultural purposes.
1. Personal labour.
(c) For building purposes.
1. Public utility or need.
2. Housing requirements.
3. Needs of a farm worked without hired labour.
(d) For the construction of ways of communication.
1. Public need.
PART IX.
PROCEDURE OF ACQUISITION OF THE RIGHT TO
USE THE LAND.
Art. 38. The acquisition of the right to use the land is preceded by the handing in of an application to this effect at the Land Department of the Soviet authority of the locality in which a person wishes to obtain a plot of land for use.
Art. 39. The application establishes the order in which it is examined, and its satisfaction in respect of the quantity of land applied for follows the general provisions of the present DECREE.
Note 1.—In addition to the full name and surname as well as residence of the applicant for the land, the application must show his previous application, the object for which the land is required, the family status or size of family, the quantity and kind of dead or live stock available, the place where land is applied for, the size of the plot required, and the ground for determining upon such size.
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