Eu el Rey. Faço saber aos que este alvará virem, que eu fui servido confirmar por outro meu alvará de sete de junho do anno de mil setecentos e cincoenta e cinco o estabelecimento da Companhia Geral do Grão Pará, e Maranhaõ com as condiçoens, e privilegios incorporados nos cincoenta e sete capitulos da sua instituçiaõ; ..
Contributors: Joseph, King of Portugal, 1714-1777; Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquês de, 1699-1782
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Lisbon?
Language: por
Subjects: Companhia Geral do Grão Pará e Maranhão; Law and legislation; Broadsides; Trading companies
Work titles: Alvará (1757 Jan. 5)
Notes: Title from first part of text.

Probably printed in Lisbon.

Dated and signed on p. [2]: Dado em Belem, aos cinco dias do mez de janeiro de mil setecentos e cincoenta e sete. Rey. Sebastiaõ Jozé de Carvalho e Mello.

Certification on p. [2] is dated and signed: Belem, a 6 de janeiro de 1757. Joaquim Joseph Borralbo.

Decree ordering the increase and the importance and wealth of the recently formed Companhia Geral do Grão Pará e Maranhaõ, a trading company created by the Marquis of Pombal in Portugal. Confirmed by an alvará on June 7, 1755 and disbanded in 1778, it was designed to control and foster commercial activity with the states of Grão Pará and Maranhaõ, strengthening the practice of mercantilism in the kingdom.

Engraved initial.

John Carter Brown Library copy sewn and glued into modern black and white paper wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bromsen Fund.