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[D. JOSÉ I]. MANUFACTURAS E PRIVILÉGIOS — Sabão, Lanifícios, Chapéus e Cartas de Jogar. 1766–1771. - [D. JOSÉ I] MANUFACTURAS E PRIVILÉGIOS — Sabão, Lanifícios, Chapéus e Cartas de Jogar . 1766–1771. 5 diplomas régios: 2 Alvarás, 1 Alvará de Declaração, 1 Decreto, 1 Instrucções. A set of five decrees concerning the regulation and promotion of various manufactures during the reign of Joseph I: soap, woolen goods, hats, and playing cards. Pombaline economic policy extensively used the granting of monopolies, price fixing, and exemption from duties as instruments to protect and stimulate national industries, seeking to reduce dependence on foreign imports and ensure the supply of essential goods at controlled prices. December 20, 1766 (King José I) — Appoints the Tobacco contractors (Anselmo José da Cruz, Policarpo José Machado and Company) as administrators of the Kingdom's Soap Factories incorporated into the Crown, effective January 1 of the following year; integration of the soap factories into the royal contract system. January 29, 1767 (King Joseph I) — Establishes a fixed and unchanging price for the sale of soap in the Kingdoms and Overseas Dominions; prohibits the entry of soap from foreign countries; observance of the privileges of 1445 and 1460; decree for the protection of national soap. September 4, 1769 (King José I) — Declaration and expansion of the Royal Decrees of August 11, 1759 and November 7, 1766; encouragement of compliance with the Regulation of January 7, 1690 and additional provisions for the better governance and expansion of the Woolen Mills of the Three Districts of Guarda, Castelo Branco and Pinhel. 1769 (D. José I) — Instructions for the administration and sale of playing cards (decks of cards), approved and confirmed by Royal Decree; prices fixed for the Kingdom, Islands and Brazil; privileges and exemptions of Administrators, Procurators and Tobacconists. October 25, 1771 (King Joseph I) — Exempts from import duties all hats manufactured in factories established in the Kingdom and its Dominions; a fiscal protection measure for national hat makers. This collection documents the diversity and systematic nature of the Josephite-Pombaline industrial policy: price fixing for soap, renewal of privileges for woolen mills in the Beira region, regulation of the playing card monopoly, and customs exemption for national hats. This documentation is of interest for the study of the economic and industrial history of 18th-century Portugal. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate