000 milreis for lots of 1,000 hectares of improved land for farm- 
ing and actually planted with rice, beans, corn or mandioca. 
(c) A premium of 100,000 milreis for lots of 500 tons of pro- 
ducts made from milk, packed meats and dried beef, which were 
produced within five years. 
4, Exemption from all import duties, including that of fees, 
for the vessels, instruments, machinery, drugs and ingredients 
necessary for the installation and working, for a period of 15 
years, of a fishing enterprise, including the salting and preserving 
of fish, that may be established on the Amazon rivers, and the 
concession of a premium of 10:000$ for five consecutive years, 
when the production of salted and preserved fish shall be above 
100 tons annually. 
Art. 10—The Government shall proceed to the discrimination, 
and consequent acknowledgment of the owners of the lands in 
the Territory of Acre, for the confirmation of their respective 
property titles. 
Section 1.—In the verification the following should be con- 
sidered as much as possible: 
(a) The titles granted by the Governors of the States of the 
Amazon, of Bolivia and the former independent State of Acre 
before the treaty of Petropolis. 
(b) The mild and pacific possessions acquired by first occu- 
pation, or from the first occupant, which shall be found in active 
exploration, or with its beginnings and habitual residence of the 
possessor, or his representatives. 
Sec. 2.—The maximum area of each lot shall be 10 kilometers 
square. 
Sec. 3—The Government will review the arrangements of 
Law, No. 601, September 18, 1850, and Decree No. 1,318, January 
30, 1854, expediting a new regulation of lands, with the modifi- 
cations of the present law and those which appear more conven- 
ient to the actual situation of the Federal territories. 
Art. IIl.—Every three years, the Government shall promote 
the realization, in Rio de Janeiro, of an exposition embracing all 
that pertains to the national rubber industry, and on these occa- 
sions it will grant premiums of encouragement, totaling an 
amount equal to that which shall be authorized by law of the 
budget in force, for the best processes of culture and treatment, 
and to the producers of the best manufactured articles. 
Art. 12.—The Executive Power is authorized to enter into an 
agreement with the States of Para, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, 
for the purpose of obtaining an annual reduction of 10 per cent. 
until the maximum limit of 50 per cent. of the actual value of the 
export duties placed by the States upon the seringa rubber pro- 
duced in their territories, and the exemption from any export 
duty, for the space of 25 years, to begin from the date of this law, 
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