Bound manuscript volume. The volume registers royal letters, orders, decrees, and statutes (regimentos) dating from 1688 to 1830. Includes a provision naming bacheral Diogo Rangel de Castello Branco auditor (ouvidor) of the city of Paraíba; royal order giving the ouvidor of Paraíba the same regiment as that of Pernambuco; regiment from the Ouvidor of Pernambuco from 1668 given to the Ouvidor of Paraíba; royal order permitting the ouvidores of Paraiba to enter the captaincy of Itamaracá with infantry and accompanying officials; order to the ouvidor to take dvassa da arremataçao of the contracts made by municipal council (Câmara) officials; order prohibiting the removal of officials from their offices without judicial ruling; order ruling that the ouvidor geral is also juiz conservador of the salt contract; provision prohibiting people from inheriting offices from their fathers without being skilled in those offices; register of the new regiment for the captaincy of Paraíba; on the office of clerk of the judicial district (escrivão da correição); register of the superintendant (intendente geral) of police of the state of Brazil soliciting information about Europeans seeking refuge in the captaincy; on the accounts of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of the vila of Goiana, in the bishopric of Pernambuco; provision about the representation (representação) of Antonio Dias Monteiro, a merchant from Paraíba do Norte.
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 229 folios, in addition to front and back covers. Book with original hardcover, damaged by iron gall ink, water, and tearing. Book contains written information up to folio 221.
Creator (Author): King(Portugal); Overseas Council (Conselho Ultramarino, Portugal).
