2. The intensive culture and breeding of the plants and 
animals of alimentation generally consumed by the neighboring 
population. 
3. The constituting of fixed centres of population economi- 
cally equipped, which will serve as a point of parting for colonies 
of greater importance, capable of gradually attending to the 
necessities that the growing population of that region may be 
creating. 
Art. 42. The preliminary studies, the plan, the preparatory 
work and the different installations necessary for the founding 
of each nucleus as well as the colonization of the lots, and their 
administration in general, shall be done in accordance with dis- 
positions of decree number 9,081, Nov. 8, and number 9,214, 
Dec. 15, 1911, observing the following alterations: 
1. The selling price of rural and urban lots shall be cal- 
culated on the prices established in the land laws of the States 
of Para and Amazonas, as a base, applicable to the nucleuses 
situated respectively in each state: 
2. In failure of remunerating work, or when there is in- 
sufficient, the judge of the administration, to maintain numerous 
families, shall furnish them food, charging the same to the 
heads of the families, calculating this furnishing at the rate of 
from 2 milreis to 3 milreis daily at the highest, for adults and 
those over 7 years of age, and one half this for those between 
the age of 7 to 8 years. 
Art. 48. The indians and native workers localized in the 
agricultural nucleuses shall participate in the advantages and 
obligations contained in decree number 9,214, Dec. 15, 1911. 
Art. 44. Having finished the preparatory work for each 
nucleus, the lots first colonized shall be those devoted to the 
production of the foods necessary for the support of the hospital 
which is in their neighborhood, so that it can count on, from 
the time of its inauguration, a regular and sufficient supply of 
these commodities. 
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