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[D. JOÃO, PRÍNCIPE REGENTE]. ACADEMIA REAL DA MARINHA E COMÉRCIO DA CIDADE DO PORTO - Alvará de 1803 e Estatutos. Porto, 1803. - [D. JOÃO, PRÍNCIPE REGENTE] ACADEMIA REAL DA MARINHA E COMÉRCIO DA CIDADE DO PORTO - Alvará de 1803 e Estatutos . 2 peças: 1 Alvará com força de Lei e 1 impresso dos Estatutos; Porto e Queluz, 1803. A pair of printed documents relating to the creation of the Royal Academy of the Navy and Commerce of the City of Porto, founded in 1803 under the inspection of the Board of Administration of the General Company of Agriculture of the Vineyards of the Upper Douro: the Royal Decree with the force of Law ordering the establishment of the classrooms and the Statutes of the new institution. 9 Feb 1803 (Prince Regent D. João; Viscount of Balsemão) - Royal Decree with the force of Law ordering the establishment in the city of Porto of classes in Mathematics, Commerce, and the English and French languages, under the inspection of the Board of Administration of the Alto Douro Company; issued at the Queluz Palace; registered on 28 February 1803 and printed at the Royal Printing Office (pp. 5-6). c. 1803 Statutes of the Royal Academy of the Navy and Commerce of the City of Porto: three professors of Mathematics, one of Rational and Moral Philosophy, two professors of French and English, one of Drawing and one of Commerce, with substitutes, and a master of naval rigging and maneuvering; three-year mathematics course. Preceded by a summary of a Royal Decree from His Royal Highness which creates two more classes (Rational and Moral Philosophy, and Agriculture), orders that the Statutes signed by the Viscount of Balsemão serve as a norm and applies the rents from the shops in the building to the College of Orphan Boys. The Royal Naval and Commercial Academy of Porto, predecessor of the Polytechnic Academy of Porto, is a landmark of technical education in Portugal; the founding diplomas, in official printed form, are direct testimony to its origins. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate