. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . teps ofthe banished by their sympathetic presence. The after-history is brief. The life-sentenced convict, ifhis conduct has been good, may after tnventy years of hardlabour pass into division II. Convicts who have been con-demned to labour for a shorter fixed period pass into freedomfrom labour as settlers, and become subject to the regulationsestablished for exiles entering straight into settlement. Thosewho compose division II. may after ten years of settlementbe registered as peasants: in
. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . teps ofthe banished by their sympathetic presence. The after-history is brief. The life-sentenced convict, ifhis conduct has been good, may after tnventy years of hardlabour pass into division II. Convicts who have been con-demned to labour for a shorter fixed period pass into freedomfrom labour as settlers, and become subject to the regulationsestablished for exiles entering straight into settlement. Thosewho compose division II. may after ten years of settlementbe registered as peasants: in this way they pass from thecontrol of the Exile Administration, and receive a formalpolice sanction for free movement and residence in thecountry districts. The distribution of ex-convicts and exile settlers through-out Siberia is conducted on a regular plan. Certain thinly-populated districts are selected, and the 2^oselcntzi are addedto the number of old inhabitants of the peasant no village must their number exceed one - third ofthat of the original population. Able-bodied exiles only. REGULATIOXS FOR EXILE SETTLERS. 201 are forced upon the coiumuiuties in this way, and toeach a grant of 15 desiatines of land is made. The poli-tical exiles of this class are usually to be found in thetowns. Again, attempts have been made to distribute theexiles in localities according to their religious beliefs : thusLutherans have been settled in one district, Jews in another,Mohammedans and Dissenters in yet others. Two character-istic restrictions attend the distribution of the Jews: («)they may not be settled within 100 versts of the Chinesefrontier (this to obviate smuggling); {li) they may not besettled near centres of the gold industry. Siberian criminalsare commonly sent to Sakhalin. For the first three yearssettlers enjoy exemption from taxes ; thereafter for sevenyears they pay half of the assessment, being burdened withthe whole at the end of that period,—ten years fro
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