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[D. JOSÉ I]. FARÓIS, ALFÂNDEGAS, CONTRABANDO E FÁBRICAS. Portugal, 1758-1770. - [D. JOSÉ I] FARÓIS, ALFÂNDEGAS, CONTRABANDO E FÁBRICAS . 5 diplomas: 3 Alvarás, 2 Alvarás com força de Lei; Portugal, 1758-1770. A collection of five Royal Decrees from King José I concerning navigation, customs, and commerce: the construction of lighthouses at the mouths of the Kingdom, a manufacturing privilege, the abolition of the office of Alcaide das Sacas (Captain of Sacks) in Valença, the regulation of the Porto Customs House, and the suppression of orchil smuggling. One of the decrees is included in duplicate. 1 Feb 1758 (D. José I; Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo) - Royal Decree with the force of law ordering the erection of six lighthouses on the river mouths and coasts of the Kingdom, establishing a new form of dispatch for merchant ships sailing to overseas territories, and revoking the Royal Decree that established the section at Ribeira das Naus; issued in Salvaterra de Magos and registered in Belém on February 28, 1758. Two copies. c. 1767 (King Joseph I; Count of Oeiras) - Royal decree granting Augusto Ludovico Thimne an exclusive privilege for ten years to establish a factory for setting diamonds and precious stones in the Court or in Porto, with conservative judges and the Board of Trade as inspector. 3 August 1767 (D. José I; Count of Oeiras) - Royal Decree extinguishing the office of Mayor of the Sacks of the town of Valença do Minho, with its guards and men, and all other chief and minor mayors that existed in other places in the far reaches of the Kingdom; registered on 7 August 1767; printed at the printing press of Miguel Rodrigues. October 10, 1768 (King José I; Count of Oeiras) - Royal Decree with the force of law regulating the customs clearance of the city of Porto and the salaries and emoluments of all officials, creating a new clerk of the discharge and two guards, in addition to the four existing ones, and abolishing the two cranes that were established without title at the Lingueta Quay; registered on October 18, 1768. 18 Oct 1770 (D. José I) - Royal Decree prohibiting the smuggling of orchil herb in the Terceira and Faial Islands and in other places where it is produced, imposing on smugglers the penalties of the Royal Laws and the Tobacco Regulations, in addition to the loss of the seized herb; registered in the State Secretariat for the Affairs of the Kingdom (p. 100). The collection brings together Pombaline decrees on the navy and customs, in which the promotion of trade and industry is linked to fiscal control and the fight against smuggling, from the first major plan for coastal lighting to the customs regulations of the North. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate