not expressly declare that they prefer another destination will 
be sent to the National Fazendas (ranches) of the Rio Branco, 
where they will be located and distributed among the different 
colonial centres in the different colonies. 
The hospitals in the Interior are created with a view of pro- 
viding the inhabitants of the Amazon valley with a centre to 
which they may have recourse and where they may be treated, 
acquire medicine and protect themselves against contagious dis- 
eases. .The points selected for these are Boa Vista of the Rio 
Branco, S. Gabriel on the Rio Negro, Teffé or Fonte Boa on the 
river Solimées, Sao Felippe on the river Jurua, Bocca do Acre on 
the Rio Purtis, at the confluence of the river Arinos with the 
Juruéna, in the Alto Tapajéz, Conceicao of the river Araguaya, 
and Montenegro on the Amapa. 
Each hospital will have accommodation for 100 sick people 
and will be divided into 5 pavillions, one of these latter being 
constructed with all the requisites necessary for the isolation of 
infectious diseases; there will also be a disinfecting house, a 
laboratory for chemical and microbiologic diagnosis, rooms for 
surgical operations and for autopsies, consulting rooms and 
pharmacy. 
Thére will also be a service of propaganda of the habits and 
hygienic measures necessary for the laborers who work and live 
in the Amazonian valley. 
Adjoining each hospital, agricultural centres will be founded 
wherein to localize 100 families at the least, these agricultural 
centres will have for their object the production of the 
alimenticiary products necessary for the supply of the said 
hospitals, the cultivation and extensive breeding of the plants 
and animals consumed as food by the neighboring population 
located all around, and the constitution of fixed centres of popu- 
lation which shall help towards the increased peopling of the 
region. The Government will assist the emigrants in the 
acquiring of lands and shall furnish them with food stuffs at a 
low price and their maintenance during the initial period. 
Amongst the improvements and means tending to facilitate 
transport and diminish its cost in the valley of the Amazon, the 
construction of systems of railways and the betterment of the 
navigability of the rivers most peopled, is of gréat importance. 
The network of iron roads will be of two different categories: 
systems of great lines forming an integral part of the general 
Federal system of railroads and a network of economic narrow- 
gauged railways having the character simply of penetration lines. 
Belonging to the first of these categories the following net- 
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