Order according to Federal Law, number 2,543A, Jan. 5, 1912
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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.