PORTUGAL - CREDIT 



the Division, give advice as to its organization and act as a court of first 

 instance in the case of law suits between the depositors and the Warehouse. 

 It may also collect samples of the produce of the region in order to send them 

 to the national and foreign markets, make experiments in agriculture and 

 in the industrial arts, propose to Government, tlirough the medium of the 

 General Department of Agriculture, the measures it judges advisable for 

 the improvement and the increase of production and the development 

 of the trade in the agricultural produce of the region. 



As far as the General Warehouse is concerned, the powers of the Coun- 

 cil are delegated to the Head of the Agricultural Commercial Development 

 Service, the real manager of the warehouse. 



The three General Warehouses now existing may found branches in the 

 various agricultural sections when they judge it necessary or advisable. 

 These branches will be managed by a Council of Delegates, consisting of 

 an Agricultural Delegate, a farmer and a merchant, elected by the Regional 

 Chambers of Agriculture of the region. 



