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with the understanding that it is not to be considered obligatory that the 
precise number of convicts shall be 300. 
Art. 4. — The term for the commencement of the works allowed to 
Don Jose de Garay shall be further extended for two years more, to be 
reckoned from the date of the publication of this decree.* 
Art. 5. — The rates for lighthouses, pilotage, and for the transmission 
of letters shall be fixed by a. special law, analogous to the provisions of 
that of 1st March, 1842. 
Art. 6. — A compensation for all lands belonging to individuals, com- 
munities, or corporations, which may be found within the ten leagues on 
either side of the transit, shall be made to the enterprise in other waste 
lands it shall select in districts nearest to the Isthmus. 
Art. 7. — All colonists making settlements under the enterprise to car- 
ry out the project, shall be exempt from military service for the term 
of twenty years, excepting only in the case of a foreign invasion of the 
Isthmus. 
Art. 8. — They shall be similarly exempt, for the same period, from 
all contributions not in the nature of municipal taxes. 
Art. 9. — All implements intended for agricultural purposes, and in- 
struments for the arts, shall be exempt from all duty for a similar term. 
Art. 10. — All articles of subsistence, clothing, furniture, and other 
things useful for the construction and embellishment of houses, shall be 
exempt from all duties for the term of six years, to be computed from 
the establishment of the colony ; but in case such articles should be in- 
tended for consumption in the interior, then they shall be subject to the 
general existing laws of the Republic. 
Art. 11. — All articles intended for the construction and repair of the 
line of communication shall be admitted free of duty, it being required, 
however, that they shall be subject to a previous examination. 
Art. 12. — No colonists shall be allowed to settle who are at the time 
citizens of a State at war with the Republic. 
Art. 13. — It shall be an express condition in all contracts with colo- 
nists, that they shall renounce the privileges of their original domicil so 
long as they reside in the country, subjecting themselves to all the exist- 
ing colonial regulations which are not in conflict with the present law. 
Art. 14. — The enterprise shall submit for the approval of Government 
all contracts which it shall make for the introduction of families and la- 
* It is proper here to observe that the works on the Isthmus were commenced with- 
in the time prescribed by the decree, and have since been continued. 
