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RESUME. 



Article 12. 



Larger grants of lands for founding colonies, towns, and estates, will 

 be made by the government gratuitously, but by means of agreements 

 with contractors, in which the conditions of this colonization shall be 

 established. 



Article 13. 



All concessions of lands made to individuals or families, in conformity 

 with articles 10 and 11, shall be void, if, at the end of eighteen months, 

 no attempt has been made to cultivate or to build upon them. 



Article 15. 



Over and above the reward which the law of the 17 th of November, 

 1849, concedes to vessels or contractors who may introduce colonists, 

 the government binds itself to give to those who may come with desti- 

 nation to the lands or valleys of the Amazon and its tributaries in Peru, 

 a passage to the place, implements of husbandry, and seeds, all gratu- 

 itous ; for which purpose sufficient deposits shall be placed in the hands 

 of the Governor General at Loreto. 



Article 16. 



A national vessel shall be detailed for the service of carrying those 

 who, whether citizens-born or emigrant foreigners, may desire to estab- 

 lish themselves in those countries ; and, after being landed at Huanchaco, 

 the Prefect of Libertad shall make provision for the transportation of the 

 immigrants to said places, by the route of the Huallaga. 



Article 17. 



In conformity with the law of November 21, 1832, the lands culti- 

 vated and houses built shall be exempt from all contributions, and shall 

 enjoy the other privileges which the laws concede to the owners of 

 uncleared lands. 



Article 18. 



The new population shall pay no contribution for the space of twenty 

 years ; nor shall the Catholics pay obventional or parochial dues, the 

 cures that shall be there established being at the expense of the State. 



