Ofício do assistente do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan, Xing, ao procurador de Macau, sobre a permanência, em Macau, do assistente do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan e sobre um terreno para a construção de uma sua repartição
This archival document is an official Qing dynasty placard (*pai*) issued on the third day of the fifth lunar month in the thirty-second year of the Qianlong reign (15 June 1767), originating from the Xiangshan County Sub-Prefectural Office (*Fen Xian Ting*) in Guangdong Province. It concerns the Qi...
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1767-05-30
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/EHBDVKRN/viewer_EHBDVKRN.html |
| Summary: | This archival document is an official Qing dynasty placard (*pai*) issued on the third day of the fifth lunar month in the thirty-second year of the Qianlong reign (15 June 1767), originating from the Xiangshan County Sub-Prefectural Office (*Fen Xian Ting*) in Guangdong Province. It concerns the Qing administration’s directive to investigate and deliberate on the establishment of a permanent magisterial sub-office (*yamen*) in Macau, reflecting heightened administrative attention to the growing Chinese and foreign (*Yi*) population and expanding commercial exchange between Macau and the mainland. The document names You Chun as Acting Sub-Prefect (*Fen Xian*), Yang as Acting Prefectural Magistrate for Civil and Military Affairs, and Leleido—identified as the *Kapitão-mor* (rendered *Yi Mu*, or ‘Chief of the Foreign Community’) and head of the Macau Senate (*Senado*)—as a principal interlocutor. It instructs joint survey work by Qing sub-prefectural officials and Portuguese civic representatives to assess suitable sites for the new yamen on grounds of topography, accessibility, security, and land tenure, requiring a detailed proposal with site plan and justification within thirty-one days. The text exemplifies Qing–Portuguese administrative hybridity in Macau, wherein Qing sovereignty was upheld through formal instruments like this placard while daily civil governance remained delegated to the *Senado*. Marginalia, seals, and editorial notes corroborate its provenance, urgency, and bureaucratic context within the Guangdong provincial archives. |
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