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1821 June 1

Copy Translation of the Minute No 2 in the Journal of the Portuguese Cortes

Read by Secretary Freire a Letter presented by
Mr Deputy Sepulueda, to whom it had been addressed
by Mr Carvalho, Member of the Regency of the Kingdom,(b)
Note (b)
(b) This body is composed
of four Members: namely The
President Conde de
Sampuro, President, and
No

Carvalho
Miss. Carvalho,
leave room here for
two other names
which Dr
is to supply along with the works of Jeremy Bentham,
offered by their venerable Author to the Portuguese
Nation: in which Letter it was said, that the writer
could not give a more authentic testimony of the value
he set upon so generous and flattering an offering,
than the accompanying it with a wish that in their
practice the Cortes may take for their guidance the liberal
doctrines principles doctrines of the principal and earliest
Constitutionalist of Europe.

Pentr Penetrated with those sentiments of esteem that
are so due to the illustrious Bentham – to that Sage
by whose luminous ideas the whole civilized world has been so
richly enlightened, and to whom those of its nations that are its free Nations
free should erect a monument of gratitude, for the indefatigable
zeal with which he has made application of those thereof
to the service of the cause of liberty and good government,
the Assembly has resolved, not only that of this his offering
honourable mention be made in their Journals, but
also that direction be given to the Regenc to cause to
be translated and printed all those his works, and
that by one Messeurs the Secretaries of this august Assembly
a Letter be written to him making known conveying to him the grateful acknowledgements
of the Cortes, accompanied with the intimation
that his gift those his gifts were addressed to the Assembly by
one

Identifier: | JB/106/323/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1821-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	323	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	[[titles::translation of the minute[?] no. 2 in the journal of the portuguese cortes]]
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	verso	Page Numbering	d2 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	349910051
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