Main points of the emancipation settlement
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- Main Points of the Emancipation Settlement
- Serfs were no longer tied to the land and became freemen, and were free to:
- Marry
- Own Property
- Set up Business
- Travel
- Enjoy Legal Rights
- Each serf family (excluding domestic serfs) was entitled to keep its cottage and an allotment
- The extent of allotment granted was dependant on local circumstances
- Landowners retained ownership of meadows, pasture and woodland, and the land which he had farmed personally, was to be worked by hired labour, usually ex-serfs/
- Peasants were to continue to pay OBROK for a further two years after emancipation, before they achieved the status of freemen
- Landlords were not allowed to alter their demands during this period, known as 'temporary obligation'
- Volosts (local administrative councils) were established to supervise the mirs. These had their own communal courts (from 1863) and provided some degree of peasant self-government, replacing landlord jurisdiction over serfs
- Communal open fields were retained in common by the mir and could be used by all ex-serfs
- Freed Serfs were to remain within the peasant community (mir) until all the redemption payments were made.
- The mir controlled land allocation, tax collection, and in broad terms, the entire economic life of the commune
- Landlords would receive compensation from the government for the loss of land in the form of government bonds
- Peasants required to pay redemption payments, a form of tax for they received. These payments would be made in 49 annual charges with a 6% interest rate
- Peasants kept the land surrounding the cottage (known as usad'ba) and received and additional allocation of land according to their position and the decision of the mir.
- They could also purchase additional strips of land
- Serfs were no longer tied to the land and became freemen, and were free to:
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