The premiums and favors to those who intend to found large plantations of
agriculture and cattle raising
Art. 84. To large plantations of agriculture and cattle raising that may
be founded, one in the Territory of Acre (between the Rio Branco and
Xapury) one in the State of Amazonas (in the region of the River Autaz),
and one in the State of Pará (on the island of Marajó, or other point
more convenient on the lower Amazon), the federal Government will grant
the following favors:
(a) Exemption from import duties, including the fees, in the form and
by the process described, in article 91, for all the imported material
necessary to complete the equipment of the plantation, including houses,
barns, pastures, fences, reservoirs, implements and machines, for the
culture, harvesting and treatment of cereals, and installation of
factories for milk products, the preservation of meat, as well as for
cattle and seed which are imported, within the first 5 years after the
installation of the plantation;
(b) Premiums of 30,000 mibreis for groups of a thousand hectores of
pastures artificially planted and conveniently fenced and of 100,000
hectores and of 100,000 mibreis for groups of a thousand hectores of land
improved for agriculture, and actually cultivated with rice, beans, corn
and mandicaco;
(c) Premium of 100,000 milreis paid for groups of 500 tons of foodstuffs
manufactured from milk, and canned or packed meat, which may be produced
in 5 years.
Art. 85. The claimant of a right to these premiums must make a previous
contract with the Minister of Agriculture, in which he obligates himself
to:
1. Present within one year a plan of the plantation, in which should be
mentioned the river port that would serve him, the courses of the rivers
which wash it, with a specification of these navigable for steamers,
launches or only for canoes, the zones of forest and plain, accompanied
by the plan of installation to be made, a descriptive memorandum of
the services, and industries that he intends to develop and a detailed
relatorio, indicating the quality, the quantity and cost of the materials
necessary to import for the first year’s work.
2. Allow the plantation and all its dependencies to be visited by the
official charged with the inspection, when he is performing his duties,
to verify the proper use of the objects and materials imported exempt
from duties, the area, the state and kind of culture and the quantity,
class and quality of the goods manufactured and destined for foodstuffs.
Art. 86. The premiums shall be paid at the National Treasury or at
the Delegacias Fiscaes in Belém and Manáos, by a requisition from the
Minister of Agriculture, which the claimant must ask, attaching to
his request the certificate of the Government inspector that all the
dispositions of this regulation have been faithfully fulfilled, and
a statistical table of the workers employed during the year in each
industry and the amount of the annual crop, with the specification of the
quantity of each kind.
Art. 87. The contractor can colonize the lands of the plantation under
the order established in Chapter XII of the regulation under the decree,
number 9,081, Nov. 3, 1911; the national colonists coming from the states
of the northwest are made equal to foreign colonists, for the purpose of
the premiums of which articles 132 and 133 treat in the above mentioned
regulation.