Chapter IV: Favors to a fishing corporation

Art. 88. The Minister of Agriculture shall contract with some person, syndicate or company, offering guarantees of sufficient ability, for the establishment of a fishing enterprise, which with headquarters in Belém (Pará) or Manáos, that can be conveniently equipped as quickly as possible, to begin this and its allied industries, on a large scale in the Amazon rivers.

Art. 89. The following favors shall be given the enterprise:

(a) Exemption from all import duties, including fees, for the vessels, instruments and other maritime material; for all the material necessary for the installation, complete equipping and establishment of the enterprise on conditions which would enable it to be a going industry in all its phases, as well as the drugs, ingredients, cans and boxes, or materials to make them, and in general for all that it may be necessary to import from abroad, indispensable to the maintenance of its vessels and factories, during a term of 15 years, to count from the date of its operations;

(b) Premium of animation in money to the amount of 10,000 mibreis during 5 consecutive years, when the production of preserved and salted fish shall be annually more than 100 tons;

(c) The right of condemnation for public use, of the lands and improvements belonging to individuals, judged appropriate and indispensable for the installation of any of the establishments that it is necessary to build on land;

(d) Exemption from all state and municipal imports because the object of the contract is for the federal public service.

Art. 90. All the property of the enterprise shall revert to the Union, at the end of the term for which the contract was granted.

Art. 91. The exemptions from duties shall be given by the custom houses in Belém and Manáos, by a requisition from the Minister of Agriculture, from whom it shall be requested, attaching to the request a memorandum of the objects with specification of the qualities, quantities and ends for which they are needed, and what are imported for the services of the first establishment, and after this what must be imported for its maintenance.

Art. 92. The enterprise shall be subject to inspection by the Government as to the safety of the steamers, and processes employed in fishing, the faithful use of the objects imported, the manufacture of preserving, in which substances hurtful to the public health shall not be employed, nor in the annual production of preserved or salted fish for the purpose of obtaining the premiums in money.

Art. 93. Specimens of fish not well known, the party shall send one properly preserved to the Minister of Agriculture, accompanied by a small relatorio describing the place and conditions under which it was caught and noting anything particular that might be interesting in studying it.

Art. 94. Every commander or master of the vessels of the enterprise, shall make a written communication to the directors for them to bring to the knowledge of the Government, the places where there is the existence of any obstacle to navigation, indicating the position in a good sketch of that stretch of the river, describing its nature and the route to be followed to avoid it. These communications shall be transmitted to the Minister of Transportation in order that he may place a signal on the obstacle, and as soon as possible remove it.

TITLE VI

The Triennial Expositions Embracing All That Relates to the National Rubber Industry

Art. 95. The Rubber Expositions shall be held in Rio de Janeiro every three years, the first being on May 13, 1913; its object shall be to give the sum of the triennial movement of the national rubber industry in its various modifications, compared with the industry in other countries.

Art. 96. The triennial expositions shall include the rubber industry in all its branches and shall include the following classifications:

1. The Culture.

2. The Extraction.

3. The Improvement.

4. The Manufacture of Articles.

The classes shall be subdivided into groups including native and cultivated plants, machinery, utensils, processes, commercial type, studies and statistics.

Art. 97. Premiums of encouragement shall be given for the best processes of culture, extraction and treatment, and to the best manufactured products, whether as raw material, constituting commercial types for exportation, or as to manufacture.

Art. 98. The Government shall opportunely request the National Congress for the necessary enactments to make these premiums effective.

Art. 99. The rubber expositions shall be true expositions held in relation to the machinery and utensils and products of rubber of all kinds, but the sale sought to be registered in a special book, by the payment of a fixed percentage to the organizing commission which shall apply this income to the interests of these same expositions.

Art. 100. Foreign products can be admitted to these rubber expositions, for the purpose of permitting comparison and perfecting the national industry but shall receive no premium.