ACT OF CONGRESS 
Decree No. 2542A of January 5, 1912 
Establishing measures destined to facilitate and develop the 
culture of rubber, Caucho, Manicoba and Mangabeira, and the 
‘gathering and treatment of the rubber extracted from these trees, 
and authorizing the executive power not only to open the credits 
necessary to carry out these measures, but also to contract such 
loans as may be necessary for that purpose. 
The President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil: 
_ Hereby makes known that the National Congress decreed 
and I hereby sanction the following resolution: 
Art. 1—All utensils and materials destined for the culture 
of rubber (seringueira), Caucho, Manicgoba and Mangebeira 
and for the collecting or treatment of rubber extracted from these 
trees, whether for the purpose of extracting or experimenting, 
shall be admitted free of all custom house duties, including fees. 
Only Section—This exemption will have to be requisitioned 
of the inspectors at custom houses, who will grant it without 
delay after verifying the right of those seeking this favor. 
Art. 2.—Premiums will be granted to those who start regular 
and entirely new plantations of Seringueira, Caucho, Manigoba or 
Mangabeira, or replant old forests of Seringueira, Caucho, Mani- 
coba or Mangabeira, as soon as the plantation has taken place, 
and will be paid on the following conditions: — 
(a) For groups of 12 hectares (about 30 acres) of new culture, 
2,500 milreis if seringueira; 1,500 milreis if caucho or manigoba; 
900 milreis if mangabeira. 
(b) For groups of 25 hectares, the replanting of native serin- 
gueira, caucho, manigoba or mangabeira, 2,000 milreis; for the 
first, 1,000 milreis; for the second and third, and 720 milreis for 
‘the fourth kind. 
*- Section 1. These premiums will be payable one year before 
the first gathering, when it is shown that the ground is entirely 
cultivated and the trees well cared for. 
Sec. 2. An increase of 5 per cent will be given annually in 
addition to the premium offered planters of seringa rubber (to 
count from the beginning of the planting), who prove that they 
have cultivated between the rows in all the ground planted, 
plants of alimentation or of industrial use. _ “ 
... Art. 38. The Government will establish, at a selected con- 
venient point, an‘experimental station, or field: for demonstrating 
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