CHAPTER III

The agricultural nucleuses adjacent to the hospitals

Art. 41. The agricultural nucleuses adjacent to the interior hospital shall be founded by the Union for the following purposes:

1. The production of foodstuffs necessary for the support of the said hospitals.

2. The intensive culture and breeding of the plants and animals of alimentation generally consumed by the neighboring population.

3. The constituting of fixed centres of population economically equipped, which will serve as a point of parting for colonies of greater importance, capable of gradually attending to the necessities that the growing population of that region may be creating.

Art. 42. The preliminary studies, the plan, the preparatory work and the different installations necessary for the founding of each nucleus as well as the colonization of the lots, and their administration in general, shall be done in accordance with dispositions of decree number 9,081, Nov. 3, and number 9,214, Dec. 15, 1911, observing the following alterations:

1. The selling price of rural and urban lots shall be calculated on the prices established in the land laws of the States of Pará and Amazonas, as a base, applicable to the nucleuses situated respectively in each state:

2. In failure of remunerating work, or when there is insufficient, the judge of the administration, to maintain numerous families, shall furnish them food, charging the same to the heads of the families, calculating this furnishing at the rate of from 2 milreis to 3 milreis daily at the highest, for adults and those over 7 years of age, and one half this for those between the age of 7 to 3 years.

Art. 43. The indians and native workers localized in the agricultural nucleuses shall participate in the advantages and obligations contained in decree number 9,214, Dec. 15, 1911.

Art. 44. Having finished the preparatory work for each nucleus, the lots first colonized shall be those devoted to the production of the foods necessary for the support of the hospital which is in their neighborhood, so that it can count on, from the time of its inauguration, a regular and sufficient supply of these commodities.

TITLE IV

Improvements and measures tending to facilitate transportation and decrease its cost in the valley of the Amazon