Código de Posturas

Roteiro e Direção: Fábio Nagel
Narração: Ricardo Gonçalves
Trilha Sonora Original: Leandro Rodrigues



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Municipal Posture Code

It was called the Municipal Posture Code the rules which were created when the colony of São Leopoldo went to the category of Ville and it became indepent fom Porto Alegre in 1846.

GERMANO MOEHLECKE - "These laws, these police postures were wide. You can discover how people lived from these laws. For instance, it was forbidden to ride a horse inside the villa. They could also arrest someone when they would sell old bread. They were policial because they really had the police power.

Another law which draws attention is about women who washed clothes by the river.They were allowed to wash the clothes by the shore but they could not use obscene expressions, otherwise they would stay 2 days in jail."

These laws were handwrtitten in a large notebook. As there was not a city hall at the time, it was the chamber of councilors which had the power to create laws, fine, tax and even arrest, those who did not obey the law. Moreover, it would also administrate the town