In century XVII, in the Regal Letter of 27 of December of 1695 it emphasizes the necessity, of the representatives of Portugal in verifying the fulfilment of the legal device that determined the culture of lands. It is important to point out that the English Industrial Revolution blunts in the world-wide scene; the process of settling of the North America and the Spanish settling also contribuam with competition, in Brazil, of tropical products. Holland, France and England as economic powers, started to demand part of what they considered detentoras of rights (STOLEN, 2004). It fit to the Portuguese government to take measured to calm such situations. It was worried, therefore, with the process of povoamento and the magnifying of the culture, in view of that only apparatuses of wars were insufficient. Such measures were explicitadas, through the directed legislation to cure the problems. Thus, the restriction of amounts of lands, had for goal, to establish criteria that it favored greater equity in the distribution, the following terms: ' ' Dom Joo of Alencastro, friend.
I El-King you sending very to greet. For being informed that in the dates of lands of sesmarias of this State if it has used thus most of these dates is null for some beddings thus for the largueza with that if they grant, as for the use that gives to lands the same sesmeiros without in the distribution has had that equality that agrees my service, also common to the inhabitants of this State of that it proceeds not to cultivate lands mostly and to find if many inhabitants without dates some if not observing what on they have commanded so that if does not give each inhabitant more that four lguas of lands (REGAL LETTER, IN 27/12/1695 Apud Brazil, 2007: Volume III: 59). ' ' The determination of Portugal in emphasizing the production necessity, also was centered in the povoamento.