and cultivated plants, machinery, utensils, processes, commercial 
type, studies and statistics. 
Art. 97. Premiums of encouragement shall be given for the 
best processes of culture, extraction and treatment, and to the 
best manufactured products, whether as raw material, constitut- 
ing commercial types for exportation, or as to manufacture. 
Art. 98. The Government shall opportunely request the Na- 
tional Congress for the necessary enactments to make these prem- 
iums effective. 
Art. 99. The rubber expositions shall be true expositions held 
in relation to the machinery and utensils and products of rubber 
of all kinds, but the sale sought to be registered in a special 
book, by the payment of a fixed percentage to the organizing 
commission which shall apply this income to the interests of 
these same expositions. 
Art. 100. Foreign products can be admitted to these rubber 
expositions, for the purpose of permitting comparison and per- 
fecting the national industry but shall receive no premium. 
Section 1. Foreign products destined for the rubber exposi- 
tions shall be free of all custom house duties, as established in 
Law No. 2,544, January 4, 1912, Article 89, No. 6, but if they are 
sold, shall pay their respective import duties when given to the 
buyers. 
Sec. 2. Foreign products not sold shall be re-exported for the 
account of the respective expositors. 
Art. 101. The transportation of the national products destined 
for the rubber expositions shall be gratuitous. 
Art. 102. For these expositions there shall be prepared 
bound statistics and relatorios especially relative to the former 
period and as regards the rubber industry in Brazil, compared 
with the world movement. 
Art. 103. During the expositions there shall be held: 
1. National congresses specializing upon the rubber industry. 
2. Lectures upon subjects previously chosen and illustrated 
with stereopticon slides. 
For the carrying out of what is ordered in this article, the 
organizing commission shall provide for the respective programs 
and other measures for its entire success. 
Art. 104. From all the principle products exhibited some 
specimens shall be selected to constitute a permanent exhibit, 
which shall remain exhibited in the Commercial Museum of Rio 
de Janeiro, and in whose care shall also remain some reserves 
to be sent to similar Museums in Brazil and in foreign lands. 
