The book contains registers of correspondence exchanged between the Presidency and several authorities outside of the Province in the period ranging 1847-1850. Letter to the President of the Province of Maranhão, in 1847, from President Joaquim Carneiro de Campos, with notice of receipt of two Collections of the Province's Legislative Acts. Letter to Pernambuco's Provincial President, Antônio Pinto da Gama, from President Frederico Carneiro de Campos, in 1847, requesting a national flag for the Province's Fort, measuring twenty five spans long and fourteen spans wide; to the President of the Province of Bahia, Antônio Ignácio de Azevedo, also in 1847, with receipt notice of copies of Dr.João José Barboza de Oliveira's translated work on the penitentiary system; to the President of Sergipe's Province, from President José Vicente de Amorim Bezerra, in 1850, regarding receipt of the report presented to the Provincial Legislative Assembly. It also includes correspondence sent to the British Consul in Paraíba from President João Antônio de Vasconcelos in 1849, in response to a letter regarding the loss of a French galley's cargo and apprehension of merchandise in several locations, and the lack of a French Consul, Vice Consul or Consular Agent in the Province; among others.
Created by the Provincial Government of Paraíba.
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 152 folios, in addition to front and back cover. Manuscript book with original hardcover, badly damaged. Overall, folios are in a good state of conservation, with som eyellowing folios. Numerated through folio 150.
Creator (Scribe): Felizardo Toscano de Brito, Secretário do Governo.
