country, shall pay the proper duties according to the law of the 
budget in force in the year of its importation. 
Art. 64. Deposits of coal shall be established for supplying 
the steamers which navigate the Amazon rivers, and for others 
who care to use them, in the following places, or in others which 
be shown to be more convenient: Belem (Para), Cameta, Breves, 
Chaves, Mazagao, Gurupa, Souzel, Prainha, Sautarem, Ponta 
Nova Brasileira, Obidos, Parintius, Itacoatiara, Manaos, 
Carvoeiro, Moreira, Santa Izabel do Rio Negro, Carmo do Rio 
Branco, Caracarahy, Boca do Canuma, Baetas, Boca do Rio 
Machado, Boca do Purts, Campina, Nova Olinda, Canutama, 
Cachoeira de Hyutanahan, Boca do Pauhiny, Boca do Acre, 
Rio Branco, Seuna Madureira, Coary, Teffé, Boca do Jurua, 
Juruapeca, Mearary, Boca do Tarauaca, Cruz-iro do Sul, Boca do 
Jutahy, S. Paulo de Clivenca, Benjamin Constant and Santo 
Antonio de Maripi. 
Art. 65. There shall be floating deposits, so that they can 
be moved from one place to another, as the giowth of navigation 
in this or that place may require; they shall have sufficient 
capacity for the movement of steamers at the station they are 
serving and passes modern apparatus for discharging the coal, 
which will reduce to a minimum the raising of dust, and load 
the steamers as quickly as possible. 
Art. 66. At points where it may be thought necessary, the 
deposits shall be provided with tanks for fuel oil, which can be 
placed on the platform with coal, or on separate floating 
platforms. 
Art. 6%. The establishment of the deposits and the business 
of furnishing fuel to the steamers, shall be by contract after a 
public bidding and signed by the Minister of Agriculture. 
Art. 68. The floating material for the depositories and 
the fuel imported shall be free of all import duties, including 
the fees. 
The fees in the custom houses shall be ordered through a 
requisition from the Minister of Agriculture, from whom the 
contracting party shall ask it, for each shipment, with the nec- 
essary data. 
Art. 69. The fuel imported by the corporation can only be 
sold for river navigation service. 
Art. 70. The maximum prices at which the party can sell 
fuel to steamers, shall be according to tables approved annually 
by the Minister. These may be altered during the year, when 
so necessary in the opinion of the Government. 
Art. 71. The contracting party shall not be subject to pay- 
ment of any state or municipal duties, because the object is the 
public federal service. 
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