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EAP323/2/1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002841179
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002841177
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023625514.0x000076
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP323/2/1/1
- Title:
- Códice 290 (Recording of ordinances, and continues with the Government of the Illustrious Excellency Mr. João Pereira Caldas, Governor and General Captain of the State, Pará 16 March 1775)
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscript containing all governmental decrees, orders and regulations issued by the General Governor of the State of Grão Pará, João Pereira Caldas between 16 March 1775 and 06 November 1776. Title page:“This book will serve for the recording of ordinances, and continues with the Government of the Illustrious Excellency Mr. João Pereira Caldas, Governor and General Captain of the State, Pará 16 March 1775.” Examples: Document 01 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém send dried meat and cassava flour for the livelihood of nineteen Indians and a squad corporal who will take to Macapá the vessel intended for patrolling and guard of the north channel of the Amazon River; Document 06 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém send 300 muskets and their respective bayonets to the soldiers at the Vila Nova de Mazagão; Document 08 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém do the accounting to pay the wages of the Indians employed by the Crown for the constructions in the Vila Nova de Mazagão; Document 12 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém send to the warehouses of the Vila Nova de Mazagão six rolls of cotton cloth, a blank book, two reams of ordinary paper, and five ‘canadas’ of country brandy; Document 52 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém send weapons to the Vila de Barcelos, Captaincy of Rio Negro; Document 55 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém send to the Vila de Macapá the lime that came from Portugal to build the fortress of São José; Document 59 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver tools to the families in the attached list, which contains the name of the ‘whites’ and the number of slaves for each family; Document 86 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver to the captain of the ship going to Lisbon with birds and other animals, a barrel of salty meat, five pounds of fresh meat, two bushels of salt, sixty-four ducks, and four bushels of corn; Document 137 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver to colonel Valerio Correya Botelho de Andrade the amount of 172,375 réis for the payment of the troops of his regiment, accordingly to the custom of the country where a bushel of cassava flour equals 500 réis; Document 143 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver tools to the twenty-four heads of family who are going to the Vila Nova de Mazagão (list of families attached); Document 147 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver tools and food to the twenty-four heads of family who are going to the Vila Nova de Mazagão (list of families attached). He also orders that the transportation of these families to the said village shall occur until 10 October 1775; Document 202 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses of Belém deliver to the Royal Military Hospital of Belém all items of the list below (cloths, towels, linens, dishes, syringes, glassware, crockery, etc); Document 204 (1775) The Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver ornaments and furniture to the Hospital of St. Bôa Ventura. Bits and pieces were to be put at the service of St. Bôa Ventura’s chapel (list attached: images of Christ, of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, of various saints, and other religious objects and Catholic canonicals); Document 211 (1775) The Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver surgical instruments and supplies (list attached) to Silvestre Ribeiro Sarmento, surgeon-major (cirurgião-mór) of the Infantry Regiment of Belém; Document 218 (1775) Governor orders the payment of indemnification to owners of the houses that will be demolished around the Government Palace (nominal list with corresponding amounts attached); Document 245 (1775) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver tools and food to the twenty-five heads of family who are going to the Vila Nova de Mazagão (list with names of the whites and number of slaves attached). He also orders that the transportation of these families to the said village shall occur until 10 October 1775; Document 282 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses send food, drugs, and surgical instruments to the Hospital of Macapá (list attached); Document 291 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the the Royal Warehouses send food, tools, wine and brandy of the country (“aguardente da terra”) to the residents of the Vila Nova de Mazagão (list attached); Document 368 (1776) List of the amounts to be sent to the Captaincy of Rio Negro for the payment of the manufacture of military gear for its Infantry Regiment (list and corresponding amounts attached: shoes, soles, pants, chaps, uniforms); Document 383 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses send to the commander of the town of Borba, Captaincy of Rio Negro, gunpowder (coarse and fine) to be sent away to the Captaincy of Mato Grosso. “Twelve ‘arrobas’ of coarse gunpowder, and twelve ‘arrobas’ of the fine, in twelve barrels, of two ‘arrobas’ each one.”; Document 422 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver to Antonio de Oliveira Pantoja, commander of the first warship of the Coast Guard in the North Channel of the Amazonas river mouth, all weapons, ammunition, tools, and other fitting equipment contained in the relation included; Document 432 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver two shirts and two pants to each one of the eleven Spanish prisoners included in the list below; Document 510 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses send medicines to the commander of Vila Vistosa for the healing of the sick (list of drugs); Document 540 (1776) Governor orders the Intendant of the Royal Warehouses deliver six boxes of ammunition to colonel Theodosio Constantino Charmont (follows description of munitions and boxes).
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Endangered African diaspora collections of the state of Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002841177
036-002841178
040-002841179 - Is part of:
- EAP323/2 : Poder Executivo (Executive)
EAP323/2/1 : Secretaria da Capitania (1649-1823) /__NEWLINE__Secretary of the Captaincy (1649-1823)
EAP323/2/1/1 : Códice 290 (Recording of ordinances, and continues with the Government of the Illustrious Excellency Mr. João Pereira Caldas,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002841177[0001]/036-002841178[0001]/040-002841179
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP323/2
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 420 Images in TIFF format
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP323-2-1-1
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Portuguese
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1775
- Date Range:
- 1775
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
- Former External References:
- Códice 290
- Information About Originals:
- Arquivo Público do Estado do Pará Secretaria da Capitania Secretaria da Presidência da Província
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)