| In a first moment, the places were steered for five arbitraters or honest men according to formed up the first ordinances of the community. With the stage of the time and the growing complexity of the services and assumed services for the incipient council administration, this went in is formed for the juries 1.º and 2.º, an attorney-at - law, representative of the finance, and a variable number of officers, according to your population.The performance of these positions were limited to a year. Your renovation take place the day of saint Michael, on 29th September. For your nomination, for balloting, it was precise is inscribed, at least, in the rule of intercede |postero|. They were excluded for the performance of these positions the belonging to the noble estate and those who practiced one of the considerate offices as vile: smith, shoe-maker, tailor, schemer, wool carder, carpenter, tentmaker, wagon, carnivorous, sheep-shearing, baker, veterinarian, innkeeper and shepherd guarding common herd.as of the decrees right from the start, after the war of succession, the town-council changed your denomination for those of common council, and to be steered for the mayor, having mayor, two ruling and the attorney-at-law trustee in bankruptcy. In the century XIX, it become it with the positions and names that it is known today: Mayor, having mayor and aldermen.url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/perturbao/3282287481/perturbao[/url] |