Regimento do Lingua da Cidade, e dos Jurubaças menores, e Escrivaens.
This abstract describes a late 19th-century municipal regulation issued by the Leal Senado (the Praesidium Municipale) of Macau, governing the office, duties, remuneration, and conduct of the Principal Interpreter (*Língua*), junior *jurubacas* (Chinese community intermediaries), and municipal scrib...
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Asperto
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Father Miguel Monturo
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Jurubacas
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Leal Senado
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Macanese subject
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Macau–Canton Relations
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Municipal Scribes
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Portuguese Macau
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Principal Interpreter
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Qing suzerainty
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administrative oaths
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ceremonial protocols
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contraband prevention
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linguistic mediation
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placards
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/B8AYGQ6U/viewer_B8AYGQ6U.html |
| Summary: | This abstract describes a late 19th-century municipal regulation issued by the Leal Senado (the Praesidium Municipale) of Macau, governing the office, duties, remuneration, and conduct of the Principal Interpreter (*Língua*), junior *jurubacas* (Chinese community intermediaries), and municipal scribes. Dated to the period of Portuguese administration in Macau under Qing imperial suzerainty, the document appoints Asperto—a married, Christian, locally resident Macanese subject—as Principal Interpreter in recognition of his prior diplomatic service to the City, notably during its mission to Cochinchina and in negotiations with Chinese authorities that secured royal privileges for Macau’s Chinese residents. It also commemorates the late Father Miguel Monturo, former Scribe and notary, who died in service in Canton. The regulation prescribes formal oaths, hierarchical protocols for interactions with mandarins—including seating arrangements, ceremonial observances, and linguistic mediation—and delineates administrative responsibilities concerning placards (*Chapas*), summonses (*Vocados*), supply logistics, contraband prevention, village governance, and intelligence gathering in Canton and Anxiang. Stipends are specified in *pradas* and *vaiis*, with provisions for apprentices trained in written Chinese. The text reflects the complex tripartite administrative reality of Macau, involving the Portuguese municipal council, Qing-appointed mandarins, and local Chinese community leaders (*jurubacas*), and constitutes a primary source for studying colonial governance, cross-cultural diplomacy, and bureaucratic practice in late imperial South China. Entry number 3477 in catalogue "Jesuítas na Ásia" |
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