Sec. 2. An increase of 5 per cent will be given annually in addition to the premium offered planters of seringa rubber (to count from the beginning of the planting), who prove that they have cultivated between the rows in all the ground planted, plants of alimentation or of industrial use. Art. 3. The Government will establish, at a selected convenient point, an experimental station, or field for demonstrating the culture of seringueira in the Territory of Acre, in each of the States of Matto Grosso, Amazonas, Pará, Maranhão, Piauhy and Bahia, and for the culture of maniçoba jointly with mangabeira, in each of the States of Piauhy, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, or Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Goyaz, Paraná and Matto Grosso. These stations will furnish gratuitously, selected seed to all those interested, also instructions as to the most practical and economic methods of culture and will supply information concerning general results, which will be verified at the end of each year. Art. 4.—In addition to the indirect favors which are mentioned in Art. 1 and others which may seem reasonable and necessary, the Government will grant the right of premiums of encouragement, up to the sum of 400,000 milreis to the first plant established for refining the seringa rubber, that reduces the different qualities to a uniform type and superior to that exported and which may be established in each of the cities of Belém (Pará), and Manáos; up to 100,000 milreis to the first refining plant of maniçoba and mangabeira rubber, that accomplishes the same purpose and is established in each of the States of Piauhy, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Geraes and São Paulo; and up to 500,000 milreis to the first factory of rubber articles which shall be established in Manáos, Belém (Pará), Recife (Pernambuco), Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. Only Section.—In order to have the right to the benefit of the above article it is necessary for the factory to have actually employed a capital four times as great as the value of the premium. Art. 5.—The Government will put up three buildings to house immigrants, to be of sufficient capacity and internally arranged, the same as those on Flores Island. In Belém, Manáos, at an appropriate place in the Territory of Acre, and also at places in the Valley of the Amazon, where they are considered to be the most necessary, hospitals are to be erected, surrounded by small agricultural colonies where the sick can be received for treatment, be vaccinated gratuitously, and where medicines of the first quality are kept for sale, especially sulphate of quinine. Pamphlets containing suggestions about hygiene, prevention of the diseases of that region and the practical remedies to use in the absence of a physician, will be distributed freely.