Superintendent 5,000$000 Chief Engineer of the Section Rio Branco 2,700$000 Physician 2,500$000 Constructing Engineer 1,500$000 Chief Engineer of the Partial Commission 1,250$000 Chief Engineer of the District of Inspection 1,250$000 Engineer of the first class of the Section Rio Branco 1,250$000 Agricultural Engineer 1,000$000 Engineer of the second class 1,000$000 Secretary to the Superintendent 1,000$000 Paymaster of the Section Rio Branco 1,000$000 Conductor of the first class 750$000 Customs Official of the Section Rio Branco 750$000 Conductor of the second class 600$000 Draughtsman 600$000 Bookkeeper 500$000 Technical Aid 450$000 Clerk 350$000 Typewriter 350$000 Messenger 200$000 Servant 150$000 The personnel in service in the Valley of the Amazon, with perhaps the exception of the Chief Engineer of the Rio Branco section, shall receive an increase over the salaries mentioned in the table, varying from fifty to eighty per cent according to the judgment of the Superintendent because of the high cost of living in their respective places. A third part of the annual salary shall be considered the gratuity of the office. To the technical personnel, to the paymaster, and to the physicians shall be adjudicated by the Superintendent a daily allowance of from 5$000 to 30$000. Rio de Janeiro, April 17, 1912. PEDRO DE TOLEDO. * * * * * List of utensils and materials exempt from importation duties, to which Article 2 of Decree No. 9,521 of April 17, 1912, refers: FIRST GROUP Implements and Utensils for the Rubber Gatherer Axes. Hatchets. Knives and special apparatus for the incision of trees. Buckets, pails, basins of tin, zinc or other material. Pitchers for smoking. Machines destined for the coagulation of the milk. Cylinders for pressing. Colanders and their appurtenances. SECOND GROUP Implements and Material for Cultivation