Reforma dos territórios e das jurisdições nas capitanias do Norte do Estado do Brasil: as atuações do capitão-general Luís Diogo Lobo da Silva e do “juiz de fora” Miguel Carlos de Pina Castelo Branco na aplicação do Diretório dos índios (1757-1764)

Abstract

The article analyzes the application of the Directory of Indians in the captaincies of the North of the State of Brazil as part of a broad program of concentration of political decision in the Empire that favored the governor and captain-general of Pernambuco, extending its jurisdiction over the neighboring captaincies of Paraíba , Rio Grande and Ceará. The conflicts with the governing captains-mores and the ombudsmen-general, in addition to the reduction of the municipalities and opposition of the councilors, became the “touchstone” of the political plots in those mid-seventies, when the Crown also seemed decided to restrict the autonomies of the peripheral administration in their direct relations with the local authorities.