The favors are those of exemption from import duties for everything whatsoever that may be necessary to the proper installation and maintenance of the fazenda or ranch during 5 years. 3º Concession of favors to a fishing company or undertaking, that shall be established either in Belém or in Manáos, for exercising that industry and all subsidiary industries connected therewith on a large scale on the rivers of Amazonia. The favors consist of the entry free from import duties for all the material belonging to the company as also for all the fittings of steamers and other floating material and factories that may be necessary during the first 15 years, encouragement premiums of 10:000$000 during 5 consecutive years in the event of the production of fish either preserved or salted being maintained at a figure above 100 tons; the right of disappropriation for public utility of the lands or buildings that may be necessary for the undertaking, the exemption from state and municipal taxes. * * * * * Recognizing the utility of periodical expositions which are held as centres of special studies, producing practical results by the sum of knowledge which may be derived from them, 3 yearly expositions shall be held in Rio de Janeiro, which shall embrace all and everything which has relation to the rubber-industry. THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK—THE EXPOSITION OF RUBBER IN RIO DE JANEIRO IN THE MONTH OF MAY, 1913 The Superintendence Department of the Rubber-Defence, a provisional Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce on which is incumbent the direction and fiscalizing of all the services comprised under the Law No. 2543 of the fifth of January of 1912, has already initiated its works, undertaking the execution of the following measures. 1. Resolution to hold a National Rubber Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, opening on the thirteenth of May of 1913. 2. Installation of experimental stations, 7 centres for the cultivation of the seringueira (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Maranhão, Piauhy, Bahia and Matto Grosso), and 6 for the cultivation of maniçoba and mangabeira (Piauhy, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Geraes and São Paulo). 3. Studies in the valley of the Amazon, in the basins of the rivers Negro, Solimões, Juruá, Purús, Tapajóz and Araguaya, and in the territory of Amapá for the establishment of interior hospitals surrounded by small agricultural colonies. 4. Preliminary services for the construction of 4 of those hospitals situated respectively in Teffé or Fonte Boa on the river Solimões in S. Felippe on the river Juruá, in Bocca do Acre and in Montenegro of the Amapá. 5. Drawing up of the plan and inventory of the cattle and buildings in the part to rent out of the National fazendas of the Rio Branco; idem of the part to be colonized by the Government and projects of the colonial centres model farm for cattle-breeding, horse and mule-raising, radiographic stations, etc.