Reorganização administrativa na comarca do Serro Frio: conflitos e ascensão social de um magistrado a serviço d’el rey, José Pinto de Morais Bacelar (1749-1779)

Abstract

This work aims to analyze aspects of the trajectory of José Pinto de Morais Bacelar in the legal administrative career. More specifically, we aspire to understand Bacelar's action as an ombudsman in Serro Frio district, captaincy of Minas Gerais, during the period of the third diamond mining contract, highlighting its power relations, interactions and conflicts at a time of administrative reorganization in the district. Therefore, the idea was to analyze the strategies devised and the resources available for José Pinto de Morais Bacelar to be seen and remain as a "quality man" in the Old Regime society. We also aspire to understand the guiding value of his actions, in other words, what guided his search, as well as the benefits and gains that the career in the judiciary could provide, in the case of this study, translates into the services rendered to the Portuguese Crown