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and present the contracts of purchase or lease of the 



^ SEC'. 2. This aid will be given to every immigrant 

 applying for it, on the conditions expressed in bee. 1, 

 and may not be denied to any one, on any pretext. 



ABT. V. The aids referred to in Arts. I. and 111. 

 will when granted for the payment of the passages 

 for colonists or immigrants, be deducted for their 

 benefit from their debts to the farmers who have en- 

 gaged them. 



ART. VI. Farmers favored by this law may not 

 charge upon the advances for passages or other ex- 

 penses of the colonists more than six per cent, sim- 

 ple interest. 



ABT. VII. The guarantee of interest referred to 

 in Art. II., and the aids granted by Arts. I., III., 

 and IV., do not affect any rights of the companies, 

 farmers, colonists, and immigrants, to any favors 

 and aids from the Imperial Government in accord- 

 ance with the laws. 



ART. IX. The president of the province will eflect 

 the credit operations required for the execution of 

 this law. 



The government is a constitutional and he- 

 reditary monarchy, based upon the fundamen- 

 tal law of March 25, 1824, modified by amend- 



ments, under date of August 12, 1834, and 

 May 12, 1840. 



The Emperor, Dom Pedro II. d' Alcantara, 

 John Charles Leopold Salvador Bibiano Fran- 

 cis Xavier de Paule Leocadio Michael Gabriel 

 Raphael Gonzague, born December 2, 1825, 

 son of Dom Pedro I. d' Alcantara, is the pres- 

 ent sovereign. He reigned under tutelage, 

 by virtue of the act of abdication of his father, 

 from April 7, 1831, until July 23, 1840, when 

 he was declared by law to have attained his 

 majority ; was crowned on July 18, 1841 ; and 

 married on September 4, 1843, to Theresa 

 Christina . Maria, born March 14, 1822, daugh- 

 ter of the late King Francis I. of the Two 

 Sicilies. 



The new cabinet, formed June 25, 1875, is 

 composed as follows: Interior, Councilor J. 

 B. da Cunha Figueiredo, Senator; Justice, 

 Councilor Diego Velho, Deputy ; Foreign Af- 

 fairs, Baron de Cotegipe, Senator ; War, Duke 

 de Caxias, Senator, and President of the Coun- 

 cil of State; Navy, Councilor L. A. Pereira 



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Franco; Finance, Baron de Cotegipe (ad in- 

 terim); and Public Works, Commerce, and 

 Agriculture, T. J. Coelho de Almeida, Deputy. 



The Council of State is made up of the fol- 

 lowing members in ordinary : Duke de Caxias, 

 President; Princess Imperial Donna Izabel; 

 Prince Gaston d'Orleans, Count d'Eu ; Sena- 

 tors, Viscount d'AbaetS ; Marquis de Sao Vi- 

 cente ; Viscount do Rio Branco ; J. T. Nabuco 

 d'Aranjo; Viscount de Muritiba; and of the 

 seven members extraordinary: Viscount d'ln- 

 homirim; Senator, Viscount de Bom Retiro; 

 Viscount de Araxa; Senators, Viscount de 

 Jaguary; Viscount de Caravel] as; Duke de 

 Caxias ; and Viscount de Nictheroy. 



The President of the Senate, which is com- 



posed of eight members elected for life, is Vis- 

 count de Jaguary; Vice-President, Viscount 

 de Camaragibe. 



The Chamber of Deputies, with 122 mem- 

 bers elected for four years, has now for Presi- 

 dent Councilor M. F. Correa; Councilor A. 

 J. Henriques; J. P. M. Portella; A. G. de 

 Paula Fpnseca. 



The Archbishop of Bahia is Primate of all 

 Brazil, and there are 11 bishops : those of Para, 

 Sao Luiz, Olinda, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, 

 Porto Alegre, Marianna, Diamantina, Goyaz, 

 and Cuyabd. 



The regular army (peace footing) comprises 

 special corps (staff, 29 men; engineers, 56; 

 states, 118; almoners, 79; sanitary corps, 145) 



