TITLE VII 
The Direction and Inspection of the Service 
Art. 105. The direction and inspection of all the service for 
the economic defense of rubber, shall be in charge of a provisory 
department of the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Com- 
merce, entitled ‘““Superintendency of the Protection of Rubber.” 
Art. 106. The superintendency is charged with: 
1. To receive, to record, to prepare, and to inform the manu- 
scripts which depend upon the despatch of the Minister. 
2. To see to the effective and integral execution of measures 
of an administrative character foreseen in the Regulation. 
3. The study, planning, calculating and execution of the work 
that must be done by the administration. 
4. The study, planning, calculating, and execution of the 
work that must be done by contract. 
5. The closing, with the approval of the Minister, of the 
contracts and the decrees relative to the concurrence of the 
States and Municipalities for the works and measures which 
they resolved to aid. 
Section 1. Each service that has been definitely installed 
and is in normal working condition, shall be given over to a 
section of the Ministry of Agriculture with which it harmonizes 
and incorporated or subordinated. 
Sec. 2. For the measure that is being executed as ordered 
in Sec. 1, the Government shall provide that the proper lawful 
budgets shall be apportioned of the means necessary for the 
maintenance, conservation and development of new settlements. 
Art. 107. The Superintendency of the “Protection of Rubber” 
shall be constituted of: 
A central section working in the Federal Capital. 
A district section with headquarters in the national pines 
tions of Rio Branco. 
Partial commissions for services that may be indispensable, 
Districts of inspection embracing one or more States, in con- 
formity with the number and importance of the services under 
way. 
Art. 108. The central section shall be composed of a super- 
intendent, a secretary, a constructing engineer, an agricultural 
engineer, an engineer of the second class, two draughtsmen, two 
typewriters, a bookkeeper, two clerks, a messenger and two 
servants. 
The district section shall be composed of a chief engineer, an 
engineer of the first class, engineers of the second class, agricul- 
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