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Saps and Exudations. 



The Government will establish, at 

 carefully chosen points, experimental 

 gardens for demonstration purposes. 

 There will be one such station (for 

 Hevea) in the Acre Territory, and one in 

 each of the following States :— 

 Mattogrosso, Amazouas, Para, Marau- 

 hao, Piauhy, and Bahia. Experimental 

 Stations for the culture of Manicoba and 

 Mangabeira will be established in the 

 States of Piauhy, Ceara, Rio Grande 

 do Norte, Pernambueo, Bahia, Minas 

 Geraes, Sao Paulo, Goyaz, Parana and 

 Mattogrosso, 



The Government will also make an 

 allowance of up to 400 contos of reis 

 to the first factory for refining Para 

 rubber and reducing the various quali- 

 ties to a standard which is uniform and 

 superior for the purposes of exportation 

 to the present grades. This factory 

 must be established at both towns of 

 Belem and Manaos. A further grant 

 of up to 100 contos of reis will be made 

 to the first factory dealing with 

 Manicoba and Mangabeira rubbers in 

 the same way. Finally, a grant of up 

 to 500 contos of reis will be made 

 to the first factory of rubber goods 

 establishing itself at Manaos, Belem 

 (Para), Recife, Babaia, Rio de Janeiro. 

 It will be necessary for each factory in 

 each of the groups mentioned above to 

 show that there has been effectively 

 employed in its erection and in the 

 installation of machinery a sum equal to 

 four times the grant allowed. 



The Government will construct three 

 barracks for immigrants, of sufficient 

 size, and organised like that on the Isle 

 of Flores, at Belem, Manaos, and at a 

 point to be agreed upon in the Acre 

 Territory. It will also construct, in the 

 valley of the Amazon, at such points 

 as seem to require them, hospitals, 

 surrounded by small agricultural 

 colonies, where the sick may be received 

 and cared for. These hospitals will 

 undertake vaccination, the sale of the 

 most indispensable medicines, etc. The 

 management and the cost of the 

 barracks for immigrants will be at the 

 charge of the Government of the Union ; 

 the hospitals will be managed by men 

 of recognised professional capacity. 



In order to facilitate transport and to 

 lower the present high charges in the 

 Valley of the Amazon, the Government 

 will, with the shortest delay possible, 

 undertake the following improve- 

 ments :— 



(1) The construction of short lines of 

 railway, on narrow gauge, along . the 

 rivers Xingu, Tapojas, and others in the 

 States of Para, and Mattogrosso, and 

 along the Rio Negro, the Rio Branco 



and others in the State of Amazonas. 

 In cases where the States of Par a, 

 Mattogrosso, and Amazonas have al- 

 ready made arrangements for the con- 

 struction of such lines, the Government, 

 in order to ensure the more rapid com- 

 pletion of these works, will grant a 

 subvention of 15 contos per kilo. 



(2) Construction of a line of railway, 

 which, leaving the Medeira Mamore line 

 at a suitable point in the neighbourhood 

 of the Bar on the River Abunan, will 

 pass by Villa Rio Bianco and by a point 

 between Senna, Madureira, and Catay, 

 terminating at Villa Thaumaturg with 

 a branch towards the frontier of Peru 

 along the valley of the River Purus. 



(3) Construction of a railway from 

 the Port of Para to Pirapora, in the 

 State of Minas Geraes, and to Coroata, 

 in the State of Maranhao, with the 

 necessary branches to put it iu com- 

 munication with the limits of navigation 

 of the rivers Araguaya, Tocantins, 

 Parnabyba, and San Francisco. 



(4) Execution of the necessary works 

 to render navigable during the whole 

 of the year for vessels drawing up to 

 three feet of water, the rivers Rio 

 Negro between Sao Isabel and Cucuhy ; 

 the Rio Branco from its mouth to the 

 Port of San Joaquim ; the Purus from 

 Hyntananhan to Senna Madureira ; and 

 the Acre from the Bar up to Rio Sinho 

 de Pedras. 



Exemption from all import duties is 

 granted to vessels of all kinds intended 

 for the navigation of the rivers, and the 

 regulations of the inland merchant 

 marine will be revised and simplified, 

 and various charges reduced ; the Govern- 

 ment will grant a similar exemption, as 

 well as such indirect favours as it may 

 deem necessary, to any enterprise which 

 engages itself to provide a coal depot at 

 a point in the valley of the Amazon pre- 

 viously fixed upon, and to undertake 

 the coaling of steamers at rates approved 

 by Government. The Government will 

 give its aid to the establishment of 

 agricultural colonies in the valley of the 

 Amazon. (A number of clauses con- 

 taining the Government policy in this 

 direction are included in the document 

 under consideration, but space does not 

 admit of their reproduction.) 



The Government will undertake the 

 demarcation and surveying of the 

 occupied lands in the Federal Territory 

 of the Acre. This demarcation will have 

 ..for a result the recognition of parties in 

 possession; which will be followed by 

 the issue of corresponding titles. 



The Government proposes to support a 

 rubber exhibition to be held every three 

 years at Rio de Janeiro, 



