Art. 3. The agents shall not receive, on pain of being destituted, any particular retribution for the services the present law imposes on them, or those that any future law may impose on them.
Art. 7. Is considered as an immigrant every honest workman who comes to the Republic on board any steamer or vessel, with a second or third class passage, with the intention of fixing here his residence.
Art. 8. Every immigrant on his landing will enjoy the following favors:
1. Introduction, free from all duty, of his luggage, linen, furniture, tools or agricultural machines.
2. Disembarking of all his luggage without anything to pay.
3. All the necessary information is gratuitously taken for him, so as to provide him with the kind of work he has chosen.
The immigrants with their passage paid by the Government have a right:
1. To be lodged and fed during the first eight days.
2. To be taken over gratuitously with his luggage to the place in the national territory he has chosen for his residence.
These last benefits may also be granted by the executive power to the spontaneous immigration.
Art. 10. The immigrant will prove his good conduct and aptness to work by a certificate gratuitously given to him by the consular agent of the port from which he sailed, and duly legalized by the consular authority of his own country.
Art. 24. All ships coming here with immigrants will enjoy all the possible exemptions of taxes.
Art. 25. As a compensation to the anterior article, the immigrants bound for the Oriental Republic will enjoy on board the ships the very same treatment, as regards the food, lodging and comfort, as the immigrants going to other ports in the River Plate.
Art 33. A special inspector shall look carefully over the gratuitous disembarking of the immigrants and their luggage.
Art. 34. He will accompany them until they be put into possession of their luggage, taking good care lest any one should ask them any retribution in the "Immigrants' Hotel."
Art. 36. In case of serious illness, contracted during the journey, their lodging, maintenance and medical assistance shall be at the expenses of the State, even if the eight days granted by the law have passed.
Articles 37, 38 and 40, inclusive, stipulate that the Immigration and Agricultural Board shall attend to all the necessities of the national industry by placing all the immigrants who will submit themselves to this law: That it will note down in a special register the names of all workmen, ploughmen, etc., in search of work; that it will by all means try to place them advantageously; that it will mediate, if it be required, in all contracts, and take good care lest the patrons should not observe them faithfully.