ROYAL SESSION

No. 1 October

(Presided over by Mr. Trigoso)

At ten and a half hours, the President declared that the Session was open (…) Twenty four minutes after midday, the King entered the room (…) He then found the Sovereign Congress on its feet and His Majesty approached to take the Throne, accompanied by the Deputation, and demonstrating to them and to all of the Assembly the clearest signs of the great rejoicing that over spilled from the Royal Heart (…) and immediately thereafter did His Majesty read the following discourse:

»Gentlemen, I have examined the political Constitution of the Monarchy, which in the name of all of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves was presented to me by its legitimate Representatives, gathered in these General, Extraordinary and Constituent Courts of the Portuguese Nation (…) As such, Gentlemen, the glories to which I Aspire, and such are the most sincere motives, that determine that I do accept and hereby swear loyalty to the Political Constitution of the Monarchy.»

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