The book contains registers of correspondence exchanged between the Provincial Government and Port Captains, Sea and War Captain Francisco Vieira Leitão and Francisco Araújo Lima, from 1859 to 1870. It includes: information regarding the downsizing of Varradouro's Port, in Cidade da Paraíba; settling of recruits in the Riflemen Battalion; underage attendance in the Navy and Voluntary Imperial Companies; fire in a Varadouro bakery and the need for firefighting equipment; the stranding of a galley in the capital; request for information on cabotage and fishing vessels, including cost report, crew (whether enslaved or free), and salaries; on the Paraguay War; recruits sent to the Navy; among others.
Created by the Provincial Government of Paraíba.
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 239 folios, in addition to front and back cover. Manuscript book with nonoriginal hardcover. Overall, folios are in a good state of conservation, with som eyellowing folios. Numerated through folio 234.
