CHAPTER III
Complementary measures
Art. 62. All vessels of every kind intended for the fluvial navigation in the valley of the Amazon are free of all import duties, including the fees. This exemption shall be given by the custom houses of Belém (Pará) and Manáos, through a requisition to the Minister of Agriculture, which the importer shall have asked for, declaring in his request the number, class and tonnage, the draft and the cost and the purpose of each vessel.
Art. 63. The vessel imported under this favor, if sold outside the valley of the Amazon, or even within it, to a foreign country, shall pay the proper duties according to the law of the budget in force in the year of its importation.
Art. 64. Deposits of coal shall be established for supplying the steamers which navigate the Amazon rivers, and for others who care to use them, in the following places, or in others which be shown to be more convenient: Belém (Pará), Cametá, Breves, Chaves, Mazagão, Gurupá, Souzel, Prainha, Sautarem, Ponta Nova Brasileira, Obidos, Parintius, Itacoatiara, Manáos, Carvoeiro, Moreira, Santa Izabel do Rio Negro, Carmo do Rio Branco, Caracarahy, Boca do Canumã, Baetas, Boca do Rio Machado, Boca do Purús, Campina, Nova Olinda, Canutama, Cachoeira de Hyutanahan, Boca do Pauhiny, Boca do Acre, Rio Branco, Seuna Madureira, Coary, Teffé, Boca do Juruá, Juruapeca, Mearary, Boca do Tarauacá, Cruzeiro do Sul, Boca do Jutahy, S. Paulo de Olivença, Benjamin Constant and Santo Antonio de Maripi.
Art. 65. There shall be floating deposits, so that they can be moved from one place to another, as the growth of navigation in this or that place may require; they shall have sufficient capacity for the movement of steamers at the station they are serving and passes modern apparatus for discharging the coal, which will reduce to a minimum the raising of dust, and load the steamers as quickly as possible.
Art. 66. At points where it may be thought necessary, the deposits shall be provided with tanks for fuel oil, which can be placed on the platform with coal, or on separate floating platforms.
Art. 67. The establishment of the deposits and the business of furnishing fuel to the steamers, shall be by contract after a public bidding and signed by the Minister of Agriculture.
Art. 68. The floating material for the depositories and the fuel imported shall be free of all import duties, including the fees.
The fees in the custom houses shall be ordered through a requisition from the Minister of Agriculture, from whom the contracting party shall ask it, for each shipment, with the necessary data.
Art. 69. The fuel imported by the corporation can only be sold for river navigation service.
Art. 70. The maximum prices at which the party can sell fuel to steamers, shall be according to tables approved annually by the Minister. These may be altered during the year, when so necessary in the opinion of the Government.
Art. 71. The contracting party shall not be subject to payment of any state or municipal duties, because the object is the public federal service.
Art. 72. In places where the party has and the Government has not deposits of fuel, to him shall be given the preference for furnishing the quantity necessary for the national vessels of war, at the prices received when supplying the vessels of individuals.
Art. 73. In extraordinary circumstances and at the requisition of the Government, the contracting party shall place at its disposition all the deposits of fuel on hand, being afterwards indemnified for a part or all of the fuel delivered, and afterwards another payment of the value of the deposits unused, corresponding to the profits lost during the time of the interruption of his business, calculated on an equal period of the preceding year.
Art. 74. The bidding for the contract shall be upon the terms for the installation of the depositories, their reversion to the Union and the selling price of fuel for the first year.
TITLE V
The creation of centres producing foodstuffs in the valley of the Amazon