upon rubber of the same quality and derivation which may be 
gathered from cultivated seringaes. 
At the time the agreement is effected, the executive power 
shall issue a decree making such reduction which the States may 
make in the export duty collected on the rubber of the Federal 
Territory of Acre and conceding an equal exemption upon culti- 
vated rubber. 
Art. 18.—In addition the Government is authorized to enter 
into an agreement with the above mentioned States for the pur- 
pose of establishing, in relation to the rubber of the Territory 
of Acre, the measures of protection and defense, which they 
have adopted in relation to the production, or other measures 
which may be thought better, and having the power to issue the 
decrees necessary for this purpose. 
Art. 14.For the entire execution of this law and the realiza- 
tion of the measures decreed, the executive power, shall issue, 
as quickly as possible, the necessary regulations; it shall open 
each year the credits that may be necessary, rendering an account 
to the Legislative power the year following, of the amounts ex- 
pended, of the work done, of the results obtained and making the 
operations of credit which such services and measures demand. 
Art. 15.—All laws contrary to this are revoked. 
Rio de Janeiro, January 5, 1912, 91st year of Independence 
and the 24th year of the Republic. 
HERMES R. da FONSECA, 
PEDRO de TOLEDO. 
Order according to Federal Law, number 2,543A, Jan. 5, 1912 
Decree number 9,521, April 17, 1912 
Art. 1. The measures and services created by law number 
2,543A, Jan. 5 of the present year, for the economic defense of 
rubber, has in view: 
1. The encouragement of the extractive and cultivating in- 
dustry of the principal trees producing rubber. 
2. The creation of the refining and manufacturing industry 
of rubber articles. 
3. Assistance to. immigrants, native and foreign, recently ar- 
rived, and to the laborers already established in the valley of 
the Amazon. 
4. To facilitate transportation and decrease its cost in the 
valley of the Amazon. ; 
5. To create central producers of alimentary foodstuffs in 
the valley of the Amazon. 
6. To discriminate and legalize the possessors of lands in 
the Federal Territory of Acre. 
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