Copy 1
A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding.
- Cyrus Redding
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
457/496 page 389
![* 11. Every citizen shall be at liberty to purchase wines in the Alto Douro, and to sell them in the town of Oporto, or wherever else he may find expedient, as well as to distil any wines, whether of his own manufacture, or bought by him. “12. The Company shal] be obliged to purchase, at the price fixed by the law of the 21st September, 1802, all the wine remaining unsold after the fair of Regoa, that shail be offered to it by the farmers, until the end of March. ‘13. The wine mentioned in the preceding article, in case it be not exported, may be applied to the same purposes as the inferior wines, or sold for distillation. | “18. Only the Directors of the Company shall have the right to sell and import brandy for preparing and mixing with wines, within the barriers of Oporto, Villa Nova de Gaya, and the line of demarcation of the Alto Douro. ** 30. The present degree shall continue in force for the space of five years, or until the whole or any of the articles contained in it shall be revised or altered in such manner as may be judged fit.” DECREE PRESENTED BY JOSE DA SiLVA CARVALHO, DECLARING LISBON AND OPORTO FREE PORTS. ‘* Art. 1. The port of Lisbon is free to all merchant vessels of every country, not at war with Portugal; and every kind of merchandize and articles of commerce will be admitted into it for deposit, wheresoever produced, or under whatsoever flag imported. } ‘“‘ 9, All the provisions of the present decree shall be extended to the city of Oporto, as soon as the measures necessary to faci- litate its execution shall be taken. “The Minister for the Affairs of Finance will take notice hereof, and see to its execution. (Signed) “ Don Prepro, Duke of Braganza. “* Palace das Necessidados, 22d March, 1834.” A previous decree, dated April 3, 1833, permitted the import of foreign wines into Oporto by sea or land, upon payment of a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095012_0001_0457.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
