MONOPOLY OF YELLOW OR CALISAYA BARK. 
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[The following document, forwarded to us after the above report was in 
type, appears to be alluded to in the report. — Ed. Lon. Pharm. Journ.] 
Articles 1 to 9 of the Decree of the Bolivian Government as regards 
Bark. 
Art. 1. Four months after this a National Company will be 
established for getting and exclusively exporting bark to foreign 
places, in conformity with the law, 14th Nov., 1834. 
Art. 2. The company to be composed of such individuals as 
shall join it as bidders, who must be Bolivians or foreigners 
intermarried with Bolivians, and persons domiciliated in the Re- 
public. 
Art. 3. The funds of the society to amount to 500 per pesos, 
divided into 500 shares of 1000 pesos each. No one to have more 
than five shares. 
Art. 4. The Bank only, in the name of the society, can give 
permission to buy or export the bark got from the mountains of 
the Republic, with the absolute prohibition to any other individual 
society or corporation on pain of confiscation, for term of ten years, 
which may be lengthened as often as necessary, according to the 
result of the enterprise. 
Art. 5. The Society of Bank of Exchange can neither buy nor 
export during the first two years more than 3000 quintals, in order 
to wait till the accumulation of the European markets is reduced; 
4000 in the third year, and 5000 in the fourth and subsequent 
ones. 
Art. 6. Amongst the quantities named in the foregoing article 
for the exportation of the Calisaya bark of first quality, may be 
comprised in the first two years 600 quintals of the Charquisillo 
and Canuto, and 1000 in the subsequent ones. 
Art. 7. For the collection of funds mentioned in Article 3, a 
directing junta of four individuals is to be formed, who are to be 
named by Government and presided over by the prefect, with the 
object to convoke the shareholders, and to submit the propositions 
and subscriptions of those who wish to belong to the Society of 
the Bank of Exchange or Exportation. 
Art. 8. Two months after the enterprise is announced by the di- 
recting junta, and whenever it has got together a number of shares, 
which for the formation of the bank it shall deem sufficient, the 
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