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Rufus King to Jos é da Silva Mendes. [seal.] Regulations referred to in the decree of this date, and of which they form a part, for the execution of articles 3 and 4 of the decree of 4 th December, 1861, granting sundry prizes to cotton-growers in the province of Angola. Article 1. All land-owners in the province of Angola, who may have the most extensive and best plantations of cotton, may lay claim to and receive through the state treasury, in each year up to 1872, one of the following prizes: One prize of 4,000||000 reis; one prize of 2,000||000 reis; four prizes of 1,000||000 reis, each. Article 2. All cotton-growers under the following heads are considered as competitors for the aforesaid prizes, as follows: As competing for the first prize, all such as may have at least 500 hectares of ground under said cultivation. As competing for the second prize, all such as have from 300 to 500 hectares. As competing for the third prize, all such as have from 100 to 300 hectares, § Solus. The plantations may be in contiguous or separate pieces of land. Article 3. The plantations are to be under a regular and careful state of cultivation, and the ground occupied in such manner as that there shall not be less than 2,000 cotton shrubs in each hectare, and no prize to be claimed for the cultivation of arboraceous cotton. Article 4. In the granting of prizes, according to the respective area of culture, the preference is to be given to all such proprietors as cultivate cotton of the following species, and in the following order: 1st, long cotton, (sea island;) 2d, short cotton, (upland;) 3d, Brazil cotton; 4th, Indian cotton; 5th, any other species of shrub or arboraceous cotton. Article 5. Once a prize has been given to one plantation, the same cannot receive a similar prize in subsequent years, nor can more than one prize be conceded. to one cultivator in the same year. Article 6. All proprietors wishing to compete for any of the aforesaid prizes must petition the, May 13, 1864

From Rufus King
To Jos é da Silva Mendes. [seal.] Regulations referred to in the decree of this date, and of which they form a part, for the execution of articles 3 and 4 of the decree of 4 th December, 1861, granting sundry prizes to cotton-growers in the province of Angola. Article 1. All land-owners in the province of Angola, who may have the most extensive and best plantations of cotton, may lay claim to and receive through the state treasury, in each year up to 1872, one of the following prizes: One prize of 4,000||000 reis; one prize of 2,000||000 reis; four prizes of 1,000||000 reis, each. Article 2. All cotton-growers under the following heads are considered as competitors for the aforesaid prizes, as follows: As competing for the first prize, all such as may have at least 500 hectares of ground under said cultivation. As competing for the second prize, all such as have from 300 to 500 hectares. As competing for the third prize, all such as have from 100 to 300 hectares, § Solus. The plantations may be in contiguous or separate pieces of land. Article 3. The plantations are to be under a regular and careful state of cultivation, and the ground occupied in such manner as that there shall not be less than 2,000 cotton shrubs in each hectare, and no prize to be claimed for the cultivation of arboraceous cotton. Article 4. In the granting of prizes, according to the respective area of culture, the preference is to be given to all such proprietors as cultivate cotton of the following species, and in the following order: 1st, long cotton, (sea island;) 2d, short cotton, (upland;) 3d, Brazil cotton; 4th, Indian cotton; 5th, any other species of shrub or arboraceous cotton. Article 5. Once a prize has been given to one plantation, the same cannot receive a similar prize in subsequent years, nor can more than one prize be conceded. to one cultivator in the same year. Article 6. All proprietors wishing to compete for any of the aforesaid prizes must petition the
May 13, 1864

Navy Department. It being convenient to regulate the manner in which the prizes referred to in articles 3 and 4 of the law of 4th December, 1861, are to be…

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