State, who, by themselves or associations formed by them, should 
fulfil the conditions set forth in same. 
The prizes are of five hundred mil réis for each plot of five 
hundred rubber trees properly planted; the favors consist of 
the distribution free of charge of chemical manure, seeds, plants, 
instructions and agricultural monographs, gratuitous tuition to 
all the laborer-planters, transport free by the Braganga Railway 
and steamers subsidized by the State, reduction of export duties, 
etc. 
Lastly, Law No. 1,115, of the 8th November, 1909, affords 
protection to the rubber trees that are actually yielding, with a 
view to improving their production. 
Article First authorizes the Government of the State to fur- 
ther the defence of the rubber industry as regards the latex and 
preparation of rubber, in order to prevent the destruction of the 
trees existing in the State, punishment being dealt to whomso- 
ever manufactures the product by subversive means. 
Article second provides a prize of 50 contos of réis paper 
money at most, to be awarded at the Government’s discretion, 
to the discoverer or inventor of some process of manufacturing 
or preparing rubber, which may afford undeniable advantages as 
regards its manufacture and reduces the inferior classes to a 
single standard of rubber “fina,” ensuring a high price for the 
article. 
The State of Amazonas also, as per Law No. 675 of May 20, 
1911, authorizes the Executive Power to concede any advisable 
favors to individuals or undertakings that may bind themselves: 
to put up in Manaos factories for refinement of rubber by means 
of new and improved methods; so as to obtain a standard class 
of rubber for exportation. 
The Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural Congress held 
at Manaos in February, 1910, resolved in its final conclusions 
to recommend to the Brazilian Government and the immediate 
neighboring Republics, the reforming of their freights, especially 
as regards the food supplies; grant favors to navigation; free 
rivers from obstructions; construct railways; create colonial 
centres; admit of the pressing and absolute ‘necessity to plant 
rubber trees in the Amazon valley and open new fields of planta- 
tion; suggests the establishment of permanent exhibitions of a 
highly. educational character; advises the rubber extractors not 
to give up the process of curing by smoke and condemns entirely 
the use of acids or alum in the coagulation, and calls attention to 
the question of the commercial classes of rubber which should 
be properly defined. Going into details it requests numerous 
favors for the agriculturists that may go in for planting hevéa 
rubber trees; cacao and cereals, cotton and other products, and 
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