CHAPTER II
The money premiums offered to those who cultivate the principal rubber producing trees
Art. 5. To every one who makes an entirely new culture of Seringueira, caucho, maniçoba or mangabeira, or replants seringaes, maniçobaes, couchaes or native mangabaes, shall be given, in the first case and for groups of 12 hectares, premiums of 2,500 milreis, when it is Seringueira; 1,500 milreis when caucho or maniçoba, and 900 milreis when mangabeira—and in the second case and for groups of 25 hectares, 2,000 milreis when it is seringueiras, 1,000 milreis when couchaes or maniçobas and 720 milreis when mangabaes, when the following conditions are observed:
1. Sending beforehand to the Minister of Agriculture a plan of the property in which he expects to make the culture, indicating the area, water courses navigable for steamers, launches or only canoes, and of the means of access from headquarters to the port (fluvial or maritime) or the nearest station on the railroad, mentioning these respective distances in case the property is situated in the interior. The plan shall be accompanied by a descriptive memorandum, containing as much detailed description as possible as to the nature of the soil and its adaptation to what shall be principally cultivated, and to those which may advantageously be subsidiary; the production of rubber for the last three years in case it treats of the property in development, and about the conditions of healthfulness.
2. It shall declare whether it is new culture or replanting that is proposed to be done and in the second case the number of trees in development the property has already.
3. When the cultivation is of Seringueiras one must declare whether he expects to make parallel cultivations or not, specifying which and whether they occupy the land planted to rubber, or land separate.
4. To communicate to the official charged with the fiscalization the beginning and ending of the planting, with the necessary antecedence, the year in which the first harvest will be gathered, facilitating the examination of the property at any time, and as many times as desired.
Art. 6. The least number of trees per hectare for new culture shall be 250 for seringueira and caucho, and 400 for maniçoba and mangabeira. In the event of replanting, when possible, the distance between the trees should be 6 to 6.50 metres for seringueiras and caucho, and 5 metres for maniçoba and mangabeira.
Art. 7. To those who cultivate with seringueiras plants of alimentation or industrial utility, in all the land improved, or in other land equal to one-third of the dimensions of the first, there will be conferred annually, from the beginning of the cultivation to the year of the first rubber harvest, a supplementary premium corresponding in value to 5 per cent of the principal premium.
Art. 8. Premiums will not be paid for principal or subsidiary cultures which in the final inspections for the first and the annual inspections for the others, the trees show poor treatment or they contain an amount exceeding 15 per cent of flaws.
Art. 9. The premiums shall be paid directly by the Delegacia Fiscal of the State where the property is situated, in the preceding first harvest of rubber, through the demand of the claimant, with certificate from the Government inspector, declaring that all the conditions required in this regulation were faithfully complied with.
Sole Paragraph. The inspector who makes out the certificate shall immediately notify the Minister and will be held responsible at all times for the value of the premium paid, in case his information should be found false in whole or in part.
Art. 10. At sight of the documents spoken of in Art. 5, and after examining them, the claimant shall be entered ex-officio in the general register of farmers, existing in the General Directory of Agriculture with the advantages and guarantees it offers him.