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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00066.] A ring \(R\) is said to be of bounded decomposition type (BDT) if, for each \(n \geq 1\), there is an integer \(r(n)\) such that \(R^ n\) admits no decomposition into more than \(r(n)\) summands. It is proved that a left hereditary ring of finite uniform rank has BDT and for such a ring finitely generated projective modules can be decomposed into indecomposable modules and in any such two direct decompositions the number of terms is the same, and with a suitable numbering corresponding terms are isomorphic. In the second part of the paper a hereditary ring with an embedding in a skew field is considered. A rank function associated to the embedding is defined. Next torsion modules with respect to this rank function are defined and it is shown that the category of left torsion modules forms an abelian category in which every object has finite length and \(\text{Ext}^ 1_ R(M,R)\) establishes a duality between the category of left and right torsion modules.