The measures contained in the law in regard to making agreements with the States which produce rubber “seringa,” with a view to decreasing the export duties and protecting the rubber trade, will be dealt with separately, and with regard to the definition and legalization of freeholds in the Federal Territory in Acre and the revision and consolidation of regulations concerning the coasting service of steamers (included in No. IV) special By-Laws will be drawn up which shall be published in due course. * * * * * The measures in reference to the first group and whose object is to encourage the extracting industry and plantation of the principal rubber producing trees are: First, reduction of the cost of tools and materials employed in the rubber trade; second, granting of prizes in money to the planters of the principal rubber trees; third, installation of experimental stations for the cultivation of rubber. For the reduction in the cost of utensils and materials, free entrance is granted with exemption from any import duties, as well as to everything intended for the cultivation of the seringueira, caucho, maniçoba and mangabeira and the gathering-in and improving of rubber extracted from those trees; whether as regards the extracting industry or the plantation work. These pecuniary premiums for encouraging the industry, will be conceded to all those who plant entirely anew, or who devote themselves to replanting; in the first case and for every group of 12 hectares, the premiums will be Rs. 2:500$000 when the planting is of “seringueira”; Rs. 1:500$000 when it treats of “caucho” or “maniçoba”; and 900$000 when it is mangabeira; in the second case and for every group of 25 hectares the premiums will be 2:000$000, 1:000$000 and 720$000 respectively. The minimum number of trees for the new plantations will be 250 per hectare for the seringueira and caucho, and 400 for the maniçoba and mangabeira; in the case of re-planting, the distance to keep between the trees should be from 6 metres to 6m50 for the first mentioned case and 5 metres for the second. In order to obtain the payment of the premium, it is requisite that the trees be well cared for, and that not more than 15 per cent are damaged or useless. The subsidiary cultivation of alimentitious plants or of those useful for industrial purposes, will secure an annual gratuity corresponding to 5 per cent of the value of the principal premium. For the cultivation of the seringueira, experimental stations will be localized in the Territory of the Acre, and in the States of Matto Grosso, Amazonas, Pará, Maranhão, Piauhy and Bahia and for the growing of the maniçoba conjointly with that of the mangabeira in the States of Piauhy, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Geraes, S. Paulo, Goyaz, Paraná and Matto Grosso.