This text presents some hypothesis and ideas about the provisioning commerce in the city of São Paulo, among the years 1765-1822, through quantitative and qualitative conditions found in two documental collections produced by Senate of chamber: memoranda and detached papers. This commerce is understood like one the circuits of colonial organism, like proposed by José Roberto do Amaral Lapa. Thereby, it has been noted its autonomous functioning, according to the floods of the internal market, the actions of the contracts bidding-merchants and the reactions of the Senate of town chamber São Paulo in order to face its contexts of crisis and the radicalism of power relations a round this mercantil circuit, like an arousing factor of disputes and hostilities among local political interests, bidding-merchants and royal authorities.
internal commerce; local power; businessmen
