OFFICIAL SECTION

Minister of Affairs of the Kingdom.

Letter of Law 

João, out of the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, and of Brazil, and the Algarves, on this side and beyond the sea in Africa Lord of Guinea, and of Conquest, Navigation, Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India, etcetera. To the Subjects of all the States of My Kingdoms and Lands, good health. Faço saber aos que esta Carta de Lei virem: I hereby make it known that this Letter of Law here ensues: That by My Patent Letter, given on the thirteenth of May of this same year, It Was Served into My Highest Consideration as far as convened and rendered necessary by the Service of God and to the good of all Peoples, that the Divine Providence Entrusted to My Sovereign Direction, to bring an end to the evils and the dissensions that have occurred in Brazil, to the most serious of harm and loss, both to its own Naturals and to those of Portugal: My Paternal striving constantly occupied with considering the extent of the convenience to re-establish peace, friendship and good harmony between Brother Peoples, that the most sacred of bonds should conciliate and unite in perpetual alliance: in order to obtain achieve (?) such important ends, fostering general prosperity and securing the Political existence and the future destinies of the Kingdoms of Portugal, and Algarves, as well as those of the Kingdom of Brazil…

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