whether he expects to make parallel cultivations or not, speci- 
fying which and whether they occupy the land planted to rub- 
ber, or land separate. 
4. To communicate to official charged with the fiscalization 
the beginning and ending of the planting, with the necessary 
antecedence, the year in which the first harvest will be. gathered, 
facilitating the examination of the property at any time, and as 
many times as desired. 
Art. 6. The least number of trees per hectare for new cul- 
ture shall be 250 for seringueira and caucho, and 400 for mani- 
coba and mangabeira. In the event of replanting, when pos- 
sible, the distance between the trees should be 6 to 6.50 metres 
for seringueiras and caucho, and 5 metres for manicoba and 
mangabeira. 
Art. 7. To those who cultivate with seringueiras plants of 
alimentation or industrial utility, in all the land improved, or 
in other land equal to one-third of the dimensions of the first, 
there will be conferred annually, from the beginning of the cul- 
tivation to the year of the first rubber harvest, a supplementary 
premium corresponding in value to 5 per cent of the principal 
premium. 
Art. 8. Premiums will not be paid for principal or subsidiary 
cultures which in the final inspections for the first and the an- 
nual inspections for the others, the trees show poor treatment 
or they contain an amount exceeding 15 per cent of flaws. 
Art. 9. The premiums shall be paid directly by the Dele- 
gacia Fiscal of the State where the property is situated, in the 
preceding the first harvest of rubber, through the demand of 
the claimant, with certificate from the Government inspector, 
declaring that all the conditions required in this regulation were 
faithfully complied with. 
Sole Paragraph. The inspector who makes out the certificate 
shall immediately notify the Minister and will be held responsi- 
ble at all times for the value of the premium paid, in case his in- 
formation should be found false in whole or in part. 
Art. 10. At sight of the documents spoken of in Art. 5, and 
after examining them, the claimant shall be entered ex-efficio in 
the general register of farmers, existing in the General Directory 
of Agriculture with the advantages and guarantees it offers him. 
CHAPTER III 
The Experimental Stations for the culture of rubber 
Art. 11. The experimental stations for the culture of serin- 
gueira in the Territory of Acre and the States of Matto-Grosso, 
Amazonas, Para, Maranhao, Piauhy and Bahia, and for the culture 
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