(c) The right of appropriation for public use, according to 
the legislation in force, of the lands and improvements belong- 
ing to individuals that may be judged appropriate and necessary 
for the equipment of the factory and its dependencies. 
(d) <A preference given by the Government for the purchase 
of the products used in the service of the Army and Navy and 
the federal public departments, which shall be manufactured by 
the factories, when they can compete in quality with similar 
foreign articles—the contract for furnishing the same, adjudi- 
cated every 3 years with each factory, for those of their products 
which were classified in the first place in the expositions men- 
tioned in Article 95. 
(e) Exemption from all State and Municipal duties for the 
same time as in letter b, because the factory is considered to be 
of service to the Government. 
Art. 24. In order to claim these favors any company or 
organization that expects to erect one or more factories, should 
conform to the following formalities and conditions: 
1. Present to the Minister of Agriculture a previous request. 
accompained by the following documents: 
(a) General and detailed plan of the factories; 
(b). An estimate of the expenses for the first establishment; 
(c) A descriptive memorandum in which the capacity of 
production of the factory is declared the principal articles in- 
tended to be manufactured, the lowest price for which it is pro- 
posed to wash and refine rubber, which should be reduced, for 
each quality, to one type and superior for exportation, in gen- 
eral giving the Government all the information that will help 
it to form a correct opinion as to the nature and importance 
of the projected establishment; 
(d) Certificates and references which will prove the com- 
plete professional and financial ability of the suitor. 
2. To obligate himself in the contract made with the 
Minister of Agriculture, the clause of reversion at the end of 
the combined term. 
3. To allow the official appointed by the Government for 
the fiscalization, to visit the works during the period of construc- 
tion, for the purpose of verifying the actual amount of expenses 
incurred for the first establishment and determining the value 
of the pecuniary premium, which shall be in any of the three 
cases, equal to a fourth part of the expense, not exceeding the 
limits fixed in letter a of Article 23, as well as to visit the estab- 
lishment when he desires after it begins work, in order that he 
may be sure, that the materials imported free of duty are effec- 
tively and exclusively used in the products of the factory. 
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