Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1914 — Valuable Common Land. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Common Land.

No fewer than 1,500 towns and villages In Germany still own and have owned down from the middle ages so much common land that their inhabitants pay neither rates nor taxes. Five hundred of these townships and villages derive so great a rental from their lands that they are able, In addition, to pay every citizen, on New Tear’s day, a bonus of from $25 to SIOO as his share of the surplus revenues.