Author: Mozambique, Companhia Agricola da Beira [The Beira Agricultural Company Limited]
Title: [ A collection of 19 published, typed & handwritten documents & letters relating to Companhia Agricola da Beira, ca. 1918-27]
Description: Lisbon, [various publishers], 1918-27. orig. wrappers. [ 129 ] pages,, 21x13 - 27x21cm, This is a collection of 19 published,typed & handwritten documents & letters dated 1918 to 1927,. Textual tables. Some creases, rusted paper-clip stains, otherwise Good. ¶ All items concern the formation & operation of Companhia Agricola da Beira (The Beira Agricultural Company Limited), a Lisbon-based chartered company formed to exploit agricultural & forestry resources [including the manufacture of tannic acid] on the lands controlled by Companhia de Mocambique in the Cheringoma & Chimoio regions of Beira district of colonial Mozambique & all are from the estate of Company founding member & substitute-Administrator Joao Manoel Lopes de Oliveira of Oporto. Includes:1) "Estatutos da Companhia Agricola da Beira" (Lisboa,1919,20pp,printed); 2 ) "Projecto da Formacao de Sociedade" [1918,22pp, printed); 3) " Relatorio..1918-1919.1o Anno..." (1920,14pp,printed); 4) "Relatorio...1919-1920. 2 o Anno..." (1921,14pp,printed); 5) "Relatorio...1920-21. 3o Anno.." (1922,12 pp,printed); 6) "Contracto entre a Companhia de Mocambique e a Companhia Agricola da Beira" [1918,7pp, single-side carbon of a typescript); 7) " Outros Valores que entram na Companhia Agricola da Beira" [n.d.(ca.1918), 2 pp, single-side typed original]; 8) an untitled carbon of a typescript captioned "Senhores Acionistas";apparently the annual report for 1922-23 (1 924, 9pp); 9) "Relatorio...Ano de 1924" [1925,6pp single- side carbon of a typescript]; 10) "Relatorio...Ano de 1925. 7 o Ano da Companhia" [1926,9 pp, single-side carbon of a typescript); 11) - 19 ) Four handwritten + three typed letters + one telegram dated April- November 1918 (one dated 192 7) totalling 17 pages. With 5 stamped envelopes.

Keywords: African Colonial History, Mozambique, Colonial Economics, Agriculture Economy, Agricultural, Business Company, Economic History, Portugal Colonies, East Africa Colony, Portuguese Colonial