The creation of centres for producing food-stuffs in the valley of the Amazon being held as an element of the greatest urgency towards the successful issue of the plan elaborated, is assured by the following series of administrative measures: 1º, the renting out of the 2 national ranches on the Rio Branco, that of S. Bento and that of S. Marcus, to a public Company or undertaking which agrees to open up, and practice cattle-breeding of different kinds on a large scale and the cultivation of cereals commonly used as aliments, the establishment of a curing establishment for preparing dry meat, known as xarque, and a factory of alimenticiary conserved goods, a dairy establishment, a rice-mill and 2 mandioca grinding-mills. The company in question will take charge of and localize the emigrants who desire to be placed upon the lands belonging to the said ranches in accordance with the Federal laws regulating such matters. The favors of exemption from duties for the imported material necessary to the mounting of the fazenda or ranch and the installation of the mills and factories will be conceded, as also for the stud-cattle and seeds imported and for the chemical manures and all materials necessary for the factories and for the cultivation during the whole of the time of the contract. They shall also enjoy the right to disappropriate for public utility and shall have preference for the contract to carry out the necessary works and improvements in the navigation of the Rio Branco. The colonization of the lands of the “fazenda” of São Marcus situated between the rivers Mahú, Takutú, Surumú and Cotingo on the frontier of British Guyana, will be made directly by the Ministry of Agriculture. 2º Premiums and favors will be conceded to whomsoever may found great ranches for cattle breeding and for great agricultural purposes in territory of the Acre (between Rio Branco and Xapury), in the State of Amazonas (in the region of the Autaz), in the State of Pará (in the Island of Marajó), or in other more convenient points of the lower Amazon. These premiums are of 30:000$000 per group of 1,000 hectares of artificial pastures, planted and fenced round, of 100:000$000 per group of 1,000 hectares of lands effectively cultivated with rice, black haricot beans, Indian-corn and mandioca, and 100:000$000 per group of 500 tons of manufactured goods, of dairy produce and of preserved meat and xarque, which may have been produced within a time-space of 5 years.