Office of the Government: Dispatches by the Provincial Presidency, 1856-1858

The book contains register of Dispatches by the Provincial Presidency between 1856 and 1858. Content includes: São Benedito's Brotherhood's Clerk Marinho da Silva Medeiros's petition to be appointed as lottery treasurer for the lotteries granted to said Brotherhood by por Assembleia Provincial o Reverendo Padre José Antônio Lopes da Silveira; primary school teacher (professor de Primeiras Letras) Jose Torquarto de Sá Cavalcante, from Vila de Catolé do Rocha, requesting payment of his salaries; Pedro Beltram, Captain of the Spanish vessel Emília, requesting a pass through Cabedelo's Fort to continue his voyage to Barcelona; Private of the Second Company of the Provincial Police Corps Francisco José da Silva's request to be dismissed from service upon having completed his duty; Fernando Daniel de Carvalho, resident of Praia de Lucena, requesting a license to build a fishing corral; city resident Bento José Cezar Rangel's request to become Director of the Indigenous Population (Diretor dos Índios) do Monte-mor's village, in the municipality of Mamanguape; James Thompson, Captain of an English schooner, requesting a pass through Cabedelo's Fort to continue his voyage to Liverpool; H. L. Hans, Captain of the English vessel Rob Roy, requesting a pass through Cabedelo's Fort to continue his voyage to Liverpool; among others.

Created by the Provincial Government of Paraíba.

Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 190 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 folio188.

Creator (Scribe): Thomás de Aquino Mindêllo, Secretário.