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1822 April 22
Supplement to Codification Proposal Part II. Testimonials

No XI. The Portugueze Cortes to Jeremy Bentham, Letter 3d.
Received through the
Portugueze Mission at
London 22 April
1822
since
the impression
of the above.
Acceptance given to his Offer of an All-comprehensive Code. 22. Acts and Journals of the Cortes to be accordingly successively sent to him.

The General and Extraordinary Cortes of the
Portugueze Nation, on their being presented presentation being made to them
in the Sittings of the 26th of November last, of a Letter
which you addressed to them by you, making offer of, and
demanding requesting acceptance for, three proposed Codes, one
Civil, another Penal, and another Constitutional, on
accommodated, all of them, to the circumstances
of Portugal; adding the mention, of an Appendix,
intended to be sent by the then next Conveyance, have
resolved that in an Act of the Congress mention
shall be made of that of valuable highly valued offer, of which
the Cortes have accepted with particular pleasure,
for that in as much as the well known lights and experience
of so celebrated a Jurisconsult, and
illustrious friend of mankind will thus come in and
of an undertaking of our's in which they have that same
been comprized is field is comprehended: as also, that a translation of
the aforementioned Letter be published in the
Daily Paper of the Government, and with the
of the original by the side of it, in the Journal of the Cortes; and
these should be forwarded that transmission shall be made to you of a Collection
of the Acts and Journals of the Cortes, the as also of the continuation,
whereof shall be transmitted to you thereof
the ascending numbers as they shall appear come out.
All which, I by the bodies of the Cortes, I have
the pleasure of communicating to you by Order of
the Cortes for your information.

May Gold keep you Sir! God preserve you, Sir! Lisbon, Palace
of the Cortes, 3d
December 1821
João Batista Filgueiras

Identifier: | JB/036/196/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-21
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	196	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	11120
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