CHAPTER III

The premiums and favors to those who intend to found large plantations of agriculture and cattle raising

Art. 84. To large plantations of agriculture and cattle raising that may be founded, one in the Territory of Acre (between the Rio Branco and Xapury) one in the State of Amazonas (in the region of the River Autaz), and one in the State of Pará (on the island of Marajó, or other point more convenient on the lower Amazon), the federal Government will grant the following favors:

(a) Exemption from import duties, including the fees, in the form and by the process described, in article 91, for all the imported material necessary to complete the equipment of the plantation, including houses, barns, pastures, fences, reservoirs, implements and machines, for the culture, harvesting and treatment of cereals, and installation of factories for milk products, the preservation of meat, as well as for cattle and seed which are imported, within the first 5 years after the installation of the plantation;

(b) Premiums of 30,000 mibreis for groups of a thousand hectores of pastures artificially planted and conveniently fenced and of 100,000 hectores and of 100,000 mibreis for groups of a thousand hectores of land improved for agriculture, and actually cultivated with rice, beans, corn and mandicaco;

(c) Premium of 100,000 milreis paid for groups of 500 tons of foodstuffs manufactured from milk, and canned or packed meat, which may be produced in 5 years.

Art. 85. The claimant of a right to these premiums must make a previous contract with the Minister of Agriculture, in which he obligates himself to:

1. Present within one year a plan of the plantation, in which should be mentioned the river port that would serve him, the courses of the rivers which wash it, with a specification of these navigable for steamers, launches or only for canoes, the zones of forest and plain, accompanied by the plan of installation to be made, a descriptive memorandum of the services, and industries that he intends to develop and a detailed relatorio, indicating the quality, the quantity and cost of the materials necessary to import for the first year’s work.

2. Allow the plantation and all its dependencies to be visited by the official charged with the inspection, when he is performing his duties, to verify the proper use of the objects and materials imported exempt from duties, the area, the state and kind of culture and the quantity, class and quality of the goods manufactured and destined for foodstuffs.

Art. 86. The premiums shall be paid at the National Treasury or at the Delegacias Fiscaes in Belém and Manáos, by a requisition from the Minister of Agriculture, which the claimant must ask, attaching to his request the certificate of the Government inspector that all the dispositions of this regulation have been faithfully fulfilled, and a statistical table of the workers employed during the year in each industry and the amount of the annual crop, with the specification of the quantity of each kind.

Art. 87. The contractor can colonize the lands of the plantation under the order established in Chapter XII of the regulation under the decree, number 9,081, Nov. 3, 1911; the national colonists coming from the states of the northwest are made equal to foreign colonists, for the purpose of the premiums of which articles 132 and 133 treat in the above mentioned regulation.