tural engineers, conductors of the first and second class, a 
draughtsman, a bookkeeper, a paymaster, a customs officer, tech- 
nical assistants, journalists and a physician. 
The partial commissions shall be composed of a chief engi- 
neer, the technical and administrative personal necessary, in 
conformity with the work to be done, and a physician. 
The districts for inspection shall consist of a chief engineer, 
an engineer of the second class, an agriculturist and assistants 
to the number necessary and sufficient. 
The staff of the employes shall not be fixed, but vary accord- 
ing to the development of the work, and will correspond well 
with the distribution of the respective work and the special in- 
structions opportunely executed. 
Art. 109. The services relative to the triennial rubber exposi- 
tions, shall be directed by a special commission presided over by 
the minister and composed of the superintendent, who shall take 
the place of the minister in his absence, and of the members of 
the Permanent Commission of Expositions, created by Article 
89 of Law No. 2,544, January 4, 1912. 
Art. 110. All the personnel of the superintendency shall be 
considered in commission and dismissed when the work is fin- 
ished for which it was formed. 
Art. 111. There shall be appointed: by decree of the Presi- 
dent of the Republic, the superintendent; by preferment of the © 
Minister, the chief engineers, the secretary of the central sec- 
tion, the engineer of the first class and the paymaster of the 
district section; by the Superintendent, the engineers of the 
second class, the agriculturists, the physicians, the draughtsmen, 
the typewriters, the clerks and the customs officials; by the chief 
engineers, the personnel who work under their direction. 
Art. 112. The salaries of the employes shall be those fixed in 
the annexed table. 
For the employes in the services which were incident to the 
order in the first section of Article 106, the salaries are fixed 
in accord with tables for similar service already existing in the 
Minister’s department, increased from fifty to eighty per cent 
for those who shall be situated in the valley of the Amazon, 
while the high cost of living shall continue in that respective 
place. 
Art. 103. For services which shall be thought advantageous, 
and when they have good reputations, the Government may em- 
ploy professional specialists, natives or foreigners, paying them 
annual salaries not greater than those in the table or a lump 
sum for the service rendered, as may be advisable in each case. 
Art. 114. To provide for the increase in the work of the Di- 
rector General of Accounts, in consequence of the services men- 
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