6. Laying of a Decauville line of railway along the rapids of the Rio Branco, in order to secure prompt communication with the national ranches, which are to be let out. 7. Construction by contract or by administration of 3 dwelling quarters for immigrants in the Acre, in Manáos and in Belém. * * * * * The rubber exposition which is to take place in Rio de Janeiro, 1 every 3 years, will have for its object to show the triennial balance of rubber in its various modalities, comparing it with the situation of the same industry in other countries. The first exhibition will be inaugurated on the thirteenth of May of the coming year and will be divided into four sections; 1º The cultivation; 2º extraction; 3º improvement; 4º manufacture of articles. The sections will be divided into groups and classes comprising the native or cultivated plants, machinery, utensils, processes, commercial types, studies and statistics. Encouragement premiums will be conferred for the best processes of cultivation, extraction and preparing and for the objects best manufactured, whether of raw material constituting trade types for exportation or as manufactured articles. The sale of machinery, utensils and rubber articles and products of all kinds will be provided for against payment of a small percentage, fixed by the organizing commission. Foreign products may be admitted to the exhibition, but without having the right to a premium. They will enjoy full custom-house freedom from import-duty, but should they be sold they shall pay the respective import-duty on the occasion of their being handed over to the buyers. The re-exportation of the products not sold will run for account of the exhibitor. Lectures upon the rubber-industry will be given during the Exhibition-Congress. The Commission which will carry out the Exposition of the thirteenth of May, is constituted by their Excellencies Senhores Drs. Pedro de Toledo, Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Raymondo Pereira da Silva, Superintendent of the Rubber-Defence Department, Miguel Calmon du Pin e Almeida, Representative of the National Agricultural Society, Jorge Street, President of the Centro Industrial of Brazil, Julho Furtado, Inspector of Forests, Gardens, Tree-planting, Hunting and Fishing of the Federal District, Representative of the Municipal Prefecture and Candido Mendes de Almeida, Director of the Commercial Museum of Rio de Janeiro, Secretary General. The site chosen for the exposition is in the Quinta de Boa Vista, perhaps the most beautiful park of Rio de Janeiro. The preparatory works, such as the ground-leveling, laying-out of gardens, adoption of pavillions already existing, etc., is now already in full course of being carried out. The opportuneness of this event, the interest evinced in it by the South and North and the United forces of the Institutions that form the organizing commission, will secure a very considerable number of exhibitors.