Art. 13.—In addition the Government is authorized to enter into an agreement with the above mentioned States for the purpose of establishing, in relation to the rubber of the Territory of Acre, the measures of protection and defense, which they have adopted in relation to the production, or other measures which may be thought better, and having the power to issue the decrees necessary for this purpose. Art. 14.—For the entire execution of this law and the realization of the measures decreed, the executive power shall issue, as quickly as possible, the necessary regulations; it shall open each year the credits that may be necessary, rendering an account to the Legislative power the year following, of the amounts expended, of the work done, of the results obtained and making the operations of credit which such services and measures demand. Art. 15.—All laws contrary to this are revoked. Rio de Janeiro, January 5, 1912, 91st year of Independence and the 24th year of the Republic. HERMES R. da FONSECA, PEDRO de TOLEDO. Order according to Federal Law, number 2,543A, Jan. 5, 1912 Decree number 9,521, April 17, 1912 Art. 1. The measures and services created by law number 2,543A, Jan. 5 of the present year, for the economic defense of rubber, has in view: 1. The encouragement of the extractive and cultivating industry of the principal trees producing rubber. 2. The creation of the refining and manufacturing industry of rubber articles. 3. Assistance to immigrants, native and foreign, recently arrived, and to the laborers already established in the valley of the Amazon. 4. To facilitate transportation and decrease its cost in the valley of the Amazon. 5. To create central producers of alimentary foodstuffs in the valley of the Amazon. 6. To discriminate and legalize the possessors of lands in the Federal Territory of Acre. 7. To hold triennial expositions in Rio de Janeiro, embracing everything that relates to the national rubber industry. 8. To authorize agreements with the States producing seringa rubber, for decreasing the duties of exportation and for the protection and aid of the rubber commerce. Sole Paragraph. It shall be the object of each of these measures and means referred to in number 8 and of the special rules, that they shall publish at opportune times, as well as those referred to in number 6 and that part of number 4 which speaks of the revision and consolidation of the regulations of the coast-wise merchant marine. TITLE I The means of encouragement of the extractive and cultivating industry of the principal rubber producing trees CHAPTER I The reduction of the cost of implements and materials employed in the development of the rubber industry