Chapter VI: Section 1: In the verification the following should be considered as much

as possible:

(a) The titles granted by the Governors of the States of the Amazon, of Bolivia and the former independent State of Acre before the treaty of Petropolis.

(b) The mild and pacific possessions acquired by first occupation, or from the first occupant, which shall be found in active exploration, or with its beginnings and habitual residence of the possessor, or his representatives.

Sec. 2.—The maximum area of each lot shall be 10 kilometers square.

Sec. 3.—The Government will review the arrangements of Law, No. 601, September 18, 1850, and Decree No. 1,318, January 30, 1854, expediting a new regulation of lands, with the modifications of the present law and those which appear more convenient to the actual situation of the Federal territories.

Art. 11.—Every three years, the Government shall promote the realization, in Rio de Janeiro, of an exposition embracing all that pertains to the national rubber industry, and on these occasions it will grant premiums of encouragement, totaling an amount equal to that which shall be authorized by law of the budget in force, for the best processes of culture and treatment, and to the producers of the best manufactured articles.

Art. 12.—The Executive Power is authorized to enter into an agreement with the States of Pará, Amazonas and Matto Grosso, for the purpose of obtaining an annual reduction of 10 per cent until the maximum limit of 50 per cent of the actual value of the export duties placed by the States upon the seringa rubber produced in their territories, and the exemption from any export duty, for the space of 25 years, to begin from the date of this law, upon rubber of the same quality and derivation which may be gathered from cultivated seringaes.

At the time the agreement is effected, the executive power shall issue a decree making such reduction which the States may make in the export duty collected on the rubber of the Federal Territory of Acre and conceding an equal exemption upon cultivated rubber.

Art. 13.—In addition the Government is authorized to enter into an agreement with the above mentioned States for the purpose of establishing, in relation to the rubber of the Territory of Acre, the measures of protection and defense, which they have adopted in relation to the production, or other measures which may be thought better, and having the power to issue the decrees necessary for this purpose.

Art. 14.—For the entire execution of this law and the realization of the measures decreed, the executive power shall issue, as quickly as possible, the necessary regulations; it shall open each year the credits that may be necessary, rendering an account to the Legislative power the year following, of the amounts expended, of the work done, of the results obtained and making the operations of credit which such services and measures demand.

Art. 15.—All laws contrary to this are revoked.

Rio de Janeiro, January 5, 1912, 91st year of Independence and the 24th year of the Republic.

HERMES R. da FONSECA,
PEDRO de TOLEDO.

Order according to Federal Law, number 2,543A, Jan. 5, 1912

Decree number 9,521, April 17, 1912

Art. 1. The measures and services created by law number 2,543A, Jan. 5 of the present year, for the economic defense of rubber, has in view:

1. The encouragement of the extractive and cultivating industry of the principal trees producing rubber.

2. The creation of the refining and manufacturing industry of rubber articles.

3. Assistance to immigrants, native and foreign, recently arrived, and to the laborers already established in the valley of the Amazon.

4. To facilitate transportation and decrease its cost in the valley of the Amazon.

5. To create central producers of alimentary foodstuffs in the valley of the Amazon.

6. To discriminate and legalize the possessors of lands in the Federal Territory of Acre.

7. To hold triennial expositions in Rio de Janeiro, embracing everything that relates to the national rubber industry.

8. To authorize agreements with the States producing seringa rubber, for decreasing the duties of exportation and for the protection and aid of the rubber commerce.

Sole Paragraph. It shall be the object of each of these measures and means referred to in number 8 and of the special rules, that they shall publish at opportune times, as well as those referred to in number 6 and that part of number 4 which speaks of the revision and consolidation of the regulations of the coast-wise merchant marine.

TITLE I

The means of encouragement of the extractive and cultivating industry of the principal rubber producing trees