Diagnóstico da Situação dos Processos de Geminação entre São Vicente e os Municípios Portugueses

Surgida no período pós II Guerra Mundial, a cooperação internacional assumiu uma preponderância central para os países do continente europeu que se encontravam profundamente fragilizados, com o intuito de promover a paz, a compreensão internacional, a amizade e a reconciliação entre os seus povos, surgindo, assim, essa forma de cooperação entre as cidades da Europa Ocidental, traduzida na cooperação intermunicipal, mais concretamente, na geminação entre os municípios, dando origem a conceitos como “Cidades Gémeas” ou “Cidades Irmãs”. Em Cabo Verde, o conceito de geminação surgiu nos anos 80, mais precisamente em 1986, sendo o Município de S. Vicente pioneiro nessa matéria, assinando o seu primeiro protocolo de geminação com um município norte-americano, New Bedford, ainda sob o regime de partido único. O segundo protocolo foi assinado com a Câmara Municipal de Oeiras, em Portugal, em 1988, e, que se traduziu em ganhos inquestionáveis para a ilha. Mas, mais do que isso, abriu as portas à implementação, em todo o país, de acções de cooperação descentralizada e mostrou que era possível a cooperação entre os municípios. O presente trabalho está dividido em quatro capítulos, em que o primeiro incidiu sobre os conceitos de Cooperação Descentralizada, Desenvolvimento Local e Cooperação Intermunicipal, com destaque para este ultimo, procurando defini-lo, apresentar a sua tipologia, as formas, os factores e os actores desse tipo de cooperação descentralizada, até chegar ao tema central do trabalho, a Geminação, tendo em vista o Desenvolvimento Local. No segundo capítulo, procedeu-se a uma análise das relações internacionais de Cabo Verde, estabelecendo a ligação com a cooperação internacional do país com os seus vários parceiros. Procedeu-se, ainda, a sua caracterização política, analisando a sua condição de país sob o regime de partido único, no período pós independência, à implementação do regime de multipartidarismo, facto que possibilitou a institucionalização de um verdadeiro poder local, criando, assim, as condições necessárias, através da alteração da legislação, para a cooperação intermunicipal. Fez-se, ainda, referência a história do poder local em Portugal, bem como da legislação concernente, país com o qual os municípios cabo-verdianos estabeleceram, até então, o grosso das geminações. v No capítulo seguinte, fez-se uma resenha e enquadramento das Geminações entre os Municípios Portugueses e o de São Vicente e analisou-se o papel dos Municípios Portugueses no desenvolvimento da ilha. O último capítulo é dedicado à apresentação dos resultados da investigação, a indicar as respostas às questões colocadas no início do trabalho; a conclusão do estudo realizado e algumas recomendações, visando a melhoria do processo.

National Intelligencer Vol. XVI, No. 2193- October 15, 1814

The Intelligencer was an American newspaper that was established, in 1800, in Washington by Samuel Harrison Smith, a young Jeffersonian- Republican from Philadelphia. War of 1812 related content includes: Page 1: Major General Winfield Scott's arrival in Washington escorted by Colonel Laval's cavalry; report from Sackett's Harbour on the American and British navies; a debate on a bill to temporarily remove the seat of government from the City of Washington due to the war; the Military Committee wishing to have the President commission gold medals for distinguished service for Major Generals Brown and Scott and silver medals to Brigadier Generals Ripley, Miller and Porter for their efforts at Chippewa, Erie and Niagara as well as gold medals to Brigadier General Gaines for efforts at Erie and Brigadier General Macomb for efforts at Plattsburg; resolutions of the House on the victory of Commodore Thomas Macdonough at the Battle on Lake Champlain; Page 2: more detail on the proposed removal of the seat of government from Washington; Page 3: a letter from Major General Andrew Jackson to the Secretary of War on repelling the British at Fort Bowyer on the Point of Mobile and naval battle reports on the vessels Hermes, Sophie, and Carron; a letter from Major William Lawrence to Andrew Jackson on the battle at Fort Bowyer; military promotions of Alexander Macomb, Roger Jones, J. Hindman; more on the removal of the seat of government; citizens of Washington offering to volunteer in defense of the city; banks willing to loan the government funds to re-build destroyed government buildings; assignments of Major General Scott, General Winder and Major General Gaines; report of 300 British prisoners from Fort Erie passed through Washington; Montreal newspaper report condemning Provost for his actions at the Battle of Lake Champlain; trouble with stage coaches traveling between New Haven and Bridgeport due to cannon fire; report of a British naval squadron appearing off New Port and by Long Island and New Bedford; report of enemy naval movements from Norfolk; announcement of a book entitled "A Narrative of the Battle of Bladensburg" by and officer of General Smith; Page 4: report on the amassing navy at Kingston under Drummond and the defenses at Sackett's Harbor; report of American and British naval news from Nova Scotia and the east coast; actions of the American sloop of war, The Peacock, in international waters; an enlistment announcement by Captain Perrin Willis of the 2nd Regiment Infantry; listing of American officers and privates released from parole on October 13; Other notices report on stray horses, properties for sale, runaway slaves, imprisonments, missing livestock, medical lectures at the University of Maryland, stage lines, auctions, etc. The paper was a supporter of the Jefferson and Madison administrations until 1810 when it was sold to Joseph Gales Jr. from North Carolina. In 1812 William Seaton joined Gales as a publishing partner. This paper made significant contributions to the nation and wielded considerable influence in political circles during its publication. It has been praised for its "high standard of journalistic excellence and high intellectual level of its contents". (William E. Ames , National Intelligencer: Washington's Leading Political Newspaper) The Intelligencer was, until 1810, named the National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser. It was a tri-weekly paper and had a peak circulation of 6, 000. Publication was suspended in 1869.

Canada PostCard, 1930

A postcard from Montreal, Quebec postmarked 22 August 1930. The front of the postcard is an illustration of a male on the ground drinking out of several alcohol bottles with a sign marked "Canada". The caption reads "This place is wet and I am drinking it dry".

Abstracts of legislation relating to Harvard College governance (manuscript notebook), ca. 1723

Octavo-sized notebook containing handwritten abstracts of Massachusetts General Court legislation between 1650 and August 24, 1723 related to Harvard governance. The volume contains informal notes with extracts and summaries of legislation that established or amended the makeup and power of the Harvard Corporation. The authors of the volume are unidentified, but the notes appear to be in two different hands. The volume was presumably created during the fellowship controversy that erupted in the early 1720s after tutors Henry Flynt, Nicholas Sever, and Thomas Robie presented a memorial to the Board of Overseers calling for the tutors' right of fellowship in the Corporation.

Lawyer's account book, 1796-1829

Contains entries regarding accounts describing a wide variety of legal services and fees performed for individuals and especially for several towns (Dartmouth, Taunton, New Bedford, and Mashpee). These services include probating wills, drawing wills, prosecutions, depositions, warrants, writs, and bankruptcy.

Lawyer's account book, 1799-1815

Contains information about client accounts for legal work done in Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Account book : manuscript, 1793-1869

Account of cash paid out to various people.

Bristol County, Massachusetts, 1858 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the county of Bristol, Massachusetts, the details from actual surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling, sup't of the state map. It was published by John L. Smith & Co in 1858. Scale 1:47,520. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and county boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages, and an inset geological map of county. It includes also illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances. This map represents county boundaries as of 1858, thus it includes portions of East Providence and Pawtucket, now in Rhode Island and does not include portions of Fall River and Westport, Massachusetts, formerly in Rhode Island. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

City documents. Municipal register, Mayor's address, annual reports, etc.

Includes the reports of the Auditor, City Clerk, Engineering Dept., Fire Dept., Board of Health, Dept. of Parks, Board of Overseers of the Poor, Free Public Library, School Committee, Superintendent of Streets, and Water Board.

Crapo farm /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Gam, being a group of whaling stories,

"Introduction" by Edward Everett Hale.

Massachusetts police procedure,

Bibliography: p. [493]

The claims of Puritanism : a sermon preached at the annual election, May 31, 1826 : before His Excellency, Levi Lincoln, governor, the honorable Council, and the legislature of Massachusetts /

Mode of access: Internet.

The true believers̓ defence against charges preferred by Trinitarians : for not believing in the divinity of Christ, the deity of Christ, the trinity, &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Lady Guion / written in French, by herself, now abridged, and translated into English. Exhibiting her eminent piety, charity, meekness, resignation, fortitude and stability; her labours, travels, sufferings and services, for the conversion of souls to God; and her great success, in some places, in that best of all employments on the earth. To which are added, accounts of the lives of worthy persons, whose memories were dear to Lady Guion.

"From an English edition, published at Bristol: with a few abridgements, etc."