TITLE IV 
Improvements and measures tending to facilitate transportation 
and decrease its cost in the valley of the Amazon 
CHAPTER | 
Lines of railroad transportation 
Art. 45. There shall be constructed in the valley of the 
Amazon lines of railroad transportation of two classes: 
1. Large lines of transportation, making an integral part 
of the general line of Federal railroads, with identical character- 
istics and comprising the same principles. 
2. Economic lines of transportation, of reduced gauge, pro- 
visionally established for easy ways of penetration, whatever 
may be their development, sufficient to facilitate access to and 
permit the exploration of the virgen seringas and the good lands 
for cultivation situated on the upper banks of the Rivers Xingu, 
Tapajoz, Branco, Negro, and others situated in the States of 
Para, Matto-Grosso and Amazonas. 
Art. 40. Those lines belonging to the first class shall be 
immediately begun and constructed as quickly as possible, the 
following: 
1. Parting from the Port of Belem (Para) and joining the 
general line of railroad in Pirapora, in the State of, Minas 
Geraes and in Coroata, in the State of Maranbao, with the 
necessary branches to unite the initial points or terminals of 
navigation on the Rivers Arguaya, Tocantins, Parnaluyba, and 
S. Francisco. 
2. Beginning at a convenient point chosen on the Madeira- 
Marmoré railroad, near the mouth of the River Abunda, passing 
by the Villa Rio Branco, and the point most appropriate be- 
tween Senna Medureira and Catay and terminating in Villa 
Thaumaturgo, with a branch to the frontier of Peru by the 
valley of the River Puruts. 
Art. 4%. The rules for the construction of these lines is 
prescribed by law, number 1,126, Dec. 15, 1908, and both shall 
be let at public bidding. 
Art. 48. The Minister of Transportation is to command the 
studies to be made, to contract for the construction and in- 
spect the traffic of these roads, but he will furnish the Minister 
of Agriculture a copy of the plans relative to the route and give 
descriptive memoranda of the project, and when drawing up the 
papers for the bidding, shall include the clauses which he shall 
judge necessary and opportune for the colonization of the bor- 
dering lands and the development of the industries of the zone 
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