tion from taxes, the right of disappropriation for private in- 
dividuals, that may be necessary for the installation and mount- 
ing of factories and the preference of the Government will be 
granted for such articles, which each factory produces, when 
supplies are made to the army and to the navy, as well as to 
other public departments. 
The premiums will be as high as 400:000$000 for the first 
tactory tor the refining of seringa rubber that may be established 
in each of the cities of Belém and Manaos; up to 100 :000$000 for 
the first rubber-refining factory of “manicoba” and of manga- 
beira, which may be installed in each one of the States of Piauhy, 
Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Geraes 
and Sao Paulo; and finally of 500 :000$000 for the first factory of 
rubber-made articles, which is inaugurated in Manaos, Belém, 
Recife, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. 
The exemption from import duties embraces the rights of 
importation for the materials, machinery, utensils and the neces- 
sary tools for the construction and mounting of the factory and 
the chemical substances, textile articles and divers materials, 
combustibles and iubricants indispensable for the up-keep and 
working of the factory during the time-term of 25 years; and 
immunity from the State and Municipal taxes for the time term 
of the contract by reason of the factory being considered a 
Federal Service. 
The premium in cash shall only be considered when the 
capital of the factory is equivalent to 4 times its value. The 
payment of such premium will be effected immediately after the 
inauguration of the factory. 
The problem of assisting immigrants both national and 
foreign, who may have just arrived and the laborers established 
in the valley of the Amazon, is met by the installation of emi- 
grant-hotels in Belém, in Manaos and in the Territory of the 
Acre, by the construction of hospitals in the Interior and by the 
creation of agricultural colonies adjacent to such hospitals. 
The hotels for the reception of immigrants shall follow the 
rule and be guided in their installation by that of the Ilha das 
Flores in Rio de Janeiro, that latter being considered a Model 
Institution, at the same time the modifications exacted by the 
conditions of each particular case, that of Belém having sufficient 
capacity to accommodate 1.500 immigrants; that of Manados 
1,200 and that of Acre 800. Close to each of these immigrant- 
quarters, a store-house will be erected which shall contain all 
kinds of special tools and utensils employed in the India rubber 
industry, the which will be sold to the immigrants, who desire 
to buy them at strictly cost price.. 
The families of both national and foreign immigrants who do 
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