States of Para, Amazons and Matto-Grosso and the Federal Ter- 
ritory of the Acre, but for the prosperity of the North- 
east States, which get:the benefit of a good part of that sum 
through the intermedium of their sons, who live by the exploi- 
tation of the rubber; the Southern States benefit in their turn by 
the abundance of money in the North, that most secure guarantee 
of their prosperity, since that being producers of cereals, xarque, 
coffee, sugar, textile goods, hats and shoes, for a long time al- 
ready they have constituted themselves the principal furnishers 
of food-stuffs and wearing apparel to that region. Finally there 
is still to be considered the benefit to be brought indirectly to 
the whole country because that sum goes to increase the com- 
merce of importation, thus powerfully augmenting the Federal 
Customs Revenue. 
The sum obtained by the States of the Amazons and Para and 
by the Federal Territory of the Acre, is also considerable every 
year by the tribute paid on the rubber going out. 
This last Territory of the Acre, since its incorporation with 
Brazil by. the Treaty of Petropolis concluded with Bolivia in 
1903, cost the Union (including the expenses incident to the ac- 
quisition of the Territory and other resulting compromises of the 
said treaty, such as the arbitral Tribunal, loans to Bolivia, mark- 
ing out of the frontier, construction of the Madeira-Marmoré 
Railroad and expenses for the mobilization of troops, etc.), 
up till 1909 the sum of Rs. 62,595 :562$038; the revenue brought 
in during the same period attained the sum of Rs. 58,052 :- 
757$012, in 1910 moreover the tax upon the rubber produced 
was Rs. 19,867 :529$159 and in 1911 Rs. 9,671:711$068, or in 
other words Rs. 29,539 :240$227 more, which should be carried 
to the credit of that very rich region. The rubber of the Acre 
is exported through the intermedium of the markets of Belém 
and Manaos, the impost-tax of 20 per cent ad valorem being 
collected on the occasion of its shipment. 
The States of Amazonas and Para cannot dispense quickly 
without very serious economic disturbance with the revenue 
receivable from the tribute paid on the exportation of rubber. As 
a matter of fact, the State of Amazonas collected the sum of Rs. 
16,845 :585$063 in 1909, Rs. 18,069 :162$372 in 1910 and Rs. 12,- 
901 :477$379 in 1911; the impost-tax upon rubber brought in those 
same years respectively Rs. 13,316 :487$569, Rs. 14,836 :235$238 
and Rs. 9,999 :031$526, which can also be reckoned by 79.04 per 
cent, 82.11 per cent and 77.50 per cent. 
The State of Amazonas taxes rubber produced in the State 
itself, in 18 per cent ad valorem, and that coming from the Jav- 
ary, the boundary river with Pert, in 7 per cent. 
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