2. The maintenance of a bureau for vaccination against 
smallpox and other contageous diseases by means considered 
efficacious, and to attend gratuitously to all who may wish it. 
3. To submit for the approval of the Government the 
regimen internal of the establishment and a table of prices for 
the treatment of the sick, which should be revised every 38 years. 
4. To expose for sale in the pharmacy only medicines of 
the best quality, especially sulphate of quinine and such other 
preparations, under penalty of having destroyed all drugs known 
to be impure in addition to the fine to suit the case that may be 
fixed in the contract. 
5. To give a bond in money, or policies of the public 
federal debt that will guarantee the good conservation of the 
establishment during the time of the contract. 
6. To distribute abundantly every six months leaflets con- 
taining advice about hygiene prevention of the sicknesses of 
that region, showing in clear language, within the reach of all, 
those that are improper and the danger in the use of alcoholic 
drinks, and teaching what measures to take and the common 
remedies which should be applied in different cases when there 
is no physician to be had. 
%. To be subject to the inspection of the Government which 
should be very minute and severe as to the condition of cleanli- 
ness and conservation of the establishment, the quality of the 
medicines employed and sold to the public and the care with 
which the sick are treated. 
Art. 89. The hospitals and all their dependencies and 
sections are not subject to any duties to the state or munici- 
pality, being the property of the Union and doing a federal pub- 
lic service. 
Art. 40. To each hospital there shall be given an annual 
pecuniary subvention, proportioned to the services to which it 
will have to attend, until the income of the establishment and 
all its dependencies derive a profit of 10 per cent, during 3 con- 
secutive years on the respective capital invested, which amount 
shall be acknowledged and previously approved by the Govern- 
ment. 
CHAPTER III 
The agricultural nucleuses adjacent to the hospitals 
Art. 41. The agricultural nucleuses adjacent to the interior 
hospital shall be founded by the Union for the following pur- 
poses: 
1. The production of foodstuffs necessary for the support of 
the said hospitals. 
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