ABSTRACT:
The regiment for the conservation of forests that was instituted in Brazil in 1799 had the purpose of systematizing the construction wood cuts. The established rules were effectively applied in the captaincies of Bahia, Pernambuco and Paraíba. The work presented is an historiographical argumentation that deals with the specific issues concerning the application of the 1799 regiment in Brazil, in which local conflicts caused by the commercial limitations imposed are discussed and the role of the Conservative Judges of the Forests in this political and economic situation is analyzed. The issue presented resulted from an investigation of the funds and collections of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, namely the Conselho Ultramarino-Brasil documentary fund, followed by the usual historiographical methods of reading, transcriptions, analysis and contextualization of the documents.
KEYWORDS :
Iluminism; forest conservation; conservative judge; regiment; Brazil