V’The cultivation; 2°extraction ; 3° improvement; 4° manufacture 
of articles. 
The sections will be divided into groups and classes com- 
prising the native or cultivated plants, machinery, utensils, 
processes, commercial types, studies and statistics. 
Encouragement premiums will be conferred for the best pro- 
cesses of cultivation, extraction and preparing and for. the 
objects best manufactured, whether of raw material constituting, 
trade types for exportation or as manufactured articles. 
The sale of machinery, utensils and rubber articles and prod-. 
ucts of all kinds will be provided for against payment of a small 
percentage, fixed by the organizing commission. 
Foreign products may be admitted to the exhibition, but 
without having the right to a premium. They will enjoy’ full 
custom-house freedom from import-duty, but should they be 
sold they shall pay the respective import-duty on the occasion 
of their being handed over to the buyers. The re-exportation of 
the products. not sold will run for account of the exhibitor. 
Lectures upon the rubber-industry will be given during the 
Exhibition-Congress. 
The Commission which will carry out the Exposition of the. 
thirteenth of May, is constituted by their-Excellencies Senhores 
Drs. Pedro de Toledo, Minister of Agriculture, Industry. and. 
Commerce, Raymondo Pereira da Silva, Superintendent of the 
Rubber-Defence Department, Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida,. 
Representative of the National Agricultural Society, Jorge 
Street, President of the Centro Industrial of Brazil, Julho: 
Furtado, Inspector of Forests, Gardens, Tree-planting, Hunt- 
ing and Fishing of the Federal District. Representative of the. 
Municipal Prefecture and Candido Mendes de Almeida, Director 
of the Commercial Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Secretary Gerieral. 
The site chosen for the exposition is in the Quinta de Boa 
Vista, perhaps the most beautiful park of Rio de Janeiro. : 
‘The preparatory works, such as the ground-leveling, laying- 
out of gardens, adoption of pavillions already existing, etc., 
is now already in full course of being carried out. 
The opportuneness of this event, the interest evinced in it 
by the South and North and the United forces of the Institu- 
tions that form the organizing commission, will secure a very. 
considerable number of exhibitors. 
The month of May, one of the pleasantest months as regards 
temperature in Rio de Janeiro, is the season chosen by those 
who desire to visit the beautiful capital and thus the gathering 
of visitors to the exhibition will certainly be notable. 
_ Thus appears certain the most brilliant success for the Rub- 
ber Exhibition of Rio de Janeiro. 
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