of January, 1912, for the economic defence of rubber, regulated 
by Decree No. 9,521 of April 17, 1912, are as follows: 
I. To encourage the rubber extractor and the culivator of: 
the principal rubber-producing trees. 
II. To form industries for the refinement and manufacture 
of rubber articles. 
III. To aid immigrants, both from the country and those 
who have recently arrived from abroad, and the workmen 
already established in the Amazon valley. 
IV. To render transport easy and decrease the cost in the 
Amazon valley. : 
V. To install productive centres of food supplies in the 
Amazon valley. 
VI. To hold three-yearly exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, com- 
prehending all that relates to the rubber industry of the country. : 
The measures contained in the law in regard to making agree- 
ments with the States which produce rubber “seringa,” with a 
view to decreasing the export duties and protecting the rubber 
trade, will be dealt with separately, and with regard to the defi- 
nition and legalization of freeholds in the Federal Territory in 
Acre and the revision and consolidation of regulations concern- 
ing the coasting service of steamers (included in No, IV) special 
By-Laws will be drawn up which shall be published in due’ 
course. 
The measures in reference to the first group and whose object 
is to encourage the extracting industry and plantation of the 
principal rubber producing trees are: First; reduction of the 
cost of tools and matérials employed in the rubber trade; second, 
granting of prizes in money to the planters of the principal rub- 
ber trees; third, installation of experimental stations for the culti- 
vation of rubber. : 
For the reduction in the cost of utensils and materials, free 
entrance is granted with exemption from any import duties, ‘as 
well as to everything intended for the cultivation of thé 
seringueira, caucho, manicoba and mangabeira and the gather- 
ing-in and improving of rubber extracted’ from those trees; 
whether as regards the extracting industry or the plantation 
work. haa | . 
‘These pecuniary premiums for encouraging the industry, will 
be conceded to all those who plant entirely anew, or who devote 
themselves to replanting; in the first case and for evety group. 
of 12 hectares, the premiums will be Rs.2¢500$000 ‘when: the 
planting is of “seringueira”; Rs. 1:500$000''when ‘it treats of 
“caucho” or “manicoba”; and 900$000 when ‘it is mangabeira; in 
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