Jan

8

When the bread that is vendido to the population diminishes of size the Chamber determines the fine of 500 kings who to commercialize bread with inferior weight the two arrteis (Arrtel= 459 grams). To imprison indians stops to work in the farmings is justified for the fact of that, lacking to arms for the work and being indispensable the food production for the sustenance of the families, the citizen is not enslaving e, yes, ' ' searching its remdio' '. But the indians, very docile, make any service with great pleasure and between them carpenters, shoemakers and teceles count themselves. They are always ready to follow the flags route to the first hinterland and are a if to prepare for a war against the indians of the South, its traditional enemies. Hundreds of indians in the farms met (the religious ones also had its) and were called ' ' heathen of terra' ' , ' ' parts forras' ' , ' ' people of the Brasil' ' , after all, nobody could enslave them. The Chamber recognized that they were living of the land and that, therefore, it was better to be in the farms under the protection of the law of what embrenhados in the forests. It was common the indians to walk in the village armed of arcs and arrows and rifles, giving shots and provoking skirmishes. Chamber forbade such strolls and determined: arrest of who if found in the village carrying rifles, apprehension of the weapon and fine of 4$000 (four a thousand kings) for its proprietor. In July of 1682 a group of irritated natives of So Paulo if congregates in the front of the Chamber. The notice arrives of that the Pope condemned the slavery of the indians and, for this reason, or if they took off ' ' escravos' ' or the proprietors would have to pay per item pataca stocking.