CHAPTER I
The leasing of the national plantations of Rio Branco
Art. 75. The Minister of Agriculture can contract for the leasing of the two national plantations S. Bento and S. Marcos, except the part situated between the Rivers Mahú, Takutú, Surumú and Cotingo, by public bidding, or independent of it, with a corporation or party sufficiently able, observing the following dispositions which shall be explained and assured in the clauses of the detailed contracts.
1. The party will be obliged to:
(a) Develop and practice on a large scale, by the best and most modern methods the breeding of cattle of different kinds and the cultivation of the usual alimentary cereals;
(b) Establish a packing house for the preparation of dried beef and a factory for the canning of alimental animal and vegetable products.
(c) Equip a factory for milk products, in which in addition to making cheese and butter, milk shall be prepared by the Pasteur system or some other that may be better, in condition to be supplied to the seringaes and estates of the interior.
(d) Equip a central mill for the treatment of rice and other cereals and two improved factories for mandioca flour, as soon as the number of colonies localized can produce a sufficient supply of raw material for such establishment.
(e) Receive and localize the immigrants who may desire to settle on the lands of the plantation, in accordance with the dispositions of this regulation and with the decrees number 9,081, Nov. 3, 1911, referring to the peopling of the soil, and number 9,214, Dec. 15, 1911, referring to the protection of the Indians and localization of native laborers, in the parts that may be proper.
(f) Present to the Minister for approval the plans and descriptive memorandum, with as much detail as possible, of the agricultural nucleus which he shall be obliged to establish and all the installations referring to the factories and services necessary for the complete equipment of the plantations, within the maximum space of 2 years, to count from the signing of the contract.
(g) Be subject to inspection by the Government for the faithful execution of the contract, on the terms therein established.
Art. 76. To the party or corporation the following favors will be granted:
(a) Exemption from all import duties, including fees, in the form and by the process referred to in article 91, for all the imported material necessary to complete the equipment of the plantations, including houses, barns, pastures, fences, reservoirs, implements and machines for the culture, harvesting and treating the cereals, installation of mills and factories, improved cattle, seeds of alimentary and industrial plants, as well as for the materials and chemicals necessary to maintain the factories and husbandry, during the time of his contract.
(b) Right of condemnation for public use, of the property or improvements of individuals, which may be necessary, in the opinion of the Government for any of the services of the enterprise.
(c) All the favors specified in articles 131 and 132 of decree number 9,081, Nov. 3, 1911, native and foreign colonies being made equal.
(d) Preference for the contract of the works necessary for the improvement of the navigation of the Rio Branco, if the price is considered acceptable by the Government and the time for the completion of the work not more than 6 years.
Art. 77. The term of the lease in the contract shall be 60 years, at the end of which all the cattle for breeding and all the improvements then possessed by the lessee shall revert to the dominion of the Union.
Art. 78. Within the term of 1 year, to date from the signing of the contract, the Government will give to lessee a copy of the plans of the plantations, in which shall be marked the water courses with a specification of those navigable, the zone of forest and plain and the situations of the occupants who may be found.
Art. 79. The plantations shall be turned over as soon as an inventory of the improvements, and the number of cattle of each kind then on the plantation can be made.