Storia do Mogor 347.2.7

347.2.7

In the interval, by the interposition of friends, the criminal court was propitiated by a present made to it of fifty patacas. This money was realized by a tax imposed upon the people, as it is the custom to do in such cases. The affair just recounted caused two evils: one was that the money having been employed to satisfy the criminal court, it could not be used to make the flag; the other, that they omitted the usual procession of the Rosary in order not to have to deal with any tumult such as that occasion might give rise to.