A certified true copy of the minutes of the 63rd Session of the Assessment Committee of Soma, held in Thessaloniki on October 2, 1925 — Act 294, dossier No. 19236 referring to Lazaros’s declaration filed February 27, 1925. The header identifies the committee’s institutional position: “Εκτιμητική Επιτροπή Σόμα — Εκκλησιαστικής Επαρχίας Εφέσου — Έδρα Θεσσαλονίκης” = “Assessment Committee of Soma — of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ephesus — Headquartered in Thessaloniki.” The certified true copy was issued in Athens, July 15, 1929.
The document is a detailed line-item declaration of Lazaros’s lost Soma estate — the granular reconstruction behind the 3,330-Turkish-gold-pound summary determination of February 27, 1925 (separate document).
What Lazaros lost in 1922
| Property | Original claim (gold lira) | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| House in Soma | 1,500 | 1,200 |
| Lot adjacent to house | 100 | 75 |
| 100 stremmata at Tsarliki | 500 | 350 |
| 40 stremmata Sultan vineyard | 1,600 | 320 |
| 28 stremmata olive grove (560 trees) | 400 | 200 |
| 4 stremmata Kavaklik (16,000 poplar/coppice trees) | 3,000 | 20 |
| 4 stremmata fig + mulberry (280 trees) | 120 | rejected |
| 4 stremmata roses | 120 | — |
| 24 stremmata field | 240 | 120 |
| 24 stremmata orchard (960 fruit trees) | 1,400 | 300 |
| 7/10 share of mill | 500 | rejected |
| 1/4 share of water mill | 500 | rejected |
| 1/6 share of water mill | 500 | — |
| Starter motor (engine) | 500 | — |
| 10 stremmata field | 120 | 25 |
| Furniture | 1,200 | 300 |
| Medical equipment | 300 | 25 |
| Scientific books | 200 | 25 |
| National Bank deposit box contents | 1,060 | rejected |
| 3,000 [units] olive oil | 300 | — |
The picture that emerges is of a prosperous regional physician’s estate: a town house in Soma; multiple farms across ~200 stremmata (about 50 acres) of mixed cultivation — olives, fig and mulberry orchards, rose fields, premium Sultan grape vineyards, poplar coppice for timber; partial shares in three different community water mills; medical practice equipment and a personal scientific library; substantial olive oil inventory; and a deposit box at the National Bank of Greece. The line items “starter motor” / “engine” point to a modern motorized installation (uncommon in early-1920s rural Anatolia) — possibly tied to one of the mills or to his medical practice.
The committee approved approximately 23% of his original claim. Of an estimated 14,000 Turkish gold pound declaration, only ~3,330 was certified — a typical Greek-state experience with the post-Lausanne refugee compensation system.
The committee members were the same network of Asia Minor Greek refugees who served on the parallel February 1925 general Refugee Compensation Committee: President Avramidis; Members I. Psaltis and K. Matmaris; Secretary A. Katsoglou.