the Rio Branco and Xapury) one in the State of Amazonas (in 
the region of the River Autaz), and one in the State of Para 
(on the island of Marajé, or other point more convenient on 
the lower Amazon), the federal Government will grant the fol- 
lowing favors: 
(a) Exemption from import duties, including the fees, in 
the form and by the process described, in article 91, for all the 
imported material necessary to complete the equipment of the 
plantation, including houses, barns, pastures, fences, reservoirs, 
implements and machines, for the culture, harvesting and trea- 
ment of cereals, and installation of factories for milk products, 
the preservation of meat, as well as for cattle and seed which 
are imported, within the first 5 years after the installation of the 
plantation ; 
(b) Premiums of 30,000 mibreis for groups of a thousand 
hectores of pastures artificially planted and conveniently fenced 
and of 100,000 hectores and of 100,000 mibreis for groups of a 
thousand hectores of land improved for agriculture, and actually 
cultivated with rice, beans, corn and mandicaco; 
(c) Premium of 100,000 milreis paid for groups of 500 
tons of foodstuffs manufactured from milk, and canned or packed 
meat, which may be produced in 5 years. 
Art. 85. The claimant of a right to these premiums must 
make a previous contract with the Minister of Agriculture, in 
which he obligates himself to: 
1. Present within one year a plan of the plantation, in which 
should be mentioned the river port that would serve him, the 
courses of the rivers which wash it, with a specification of these 
navigable for steamers, launches or only for canoes, the zones 
of forest and plain, accompained by the plan of installation to 
be made, a descriptive memorandum of the services, and in- 
dustries that he intends to develop and a detailed relatorio, in- 
dicating the quality, the quantity and cost of the materials 
necessary to import for the first year’s work. 
2. Allow the plantation and all its dependencies to be visited 
by the official charged with the inspection, when he is perform- 
ing his duties, to verify the proper use of the objects and ma- 
terials imported exempt from duties, the area, the state and 
kind of culture and the quantity, class and quality of the goods 
manufactured and destined for foodstuffs. 
Art. 86. The premiums shall be paid at the National 
Treasury or at the Delegacias Fiscaes in Belem and Manaos, by 
a requisition from the Minister of Agriculture, which the claim- 
ant must ask, attaching to his request the certificate of the 
Government inspector that all the dispositions of this regulation 
have been faithfully fulfilled, and a statistical table of the work- 
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