Circular Domingo Caicedo

Abstract

The image contains a notice about the Circular Domingo Caicedo in which the use of abbreviations in official correspondence is prohibited. This is given in Colombia - State of New Granada - Secretary of State of the Treasury Office, in Bogota on June 7, 1832, to the Governor of the Province of Bogota, mentioning: Having brought about serious mistakes and errors the abuse introduced of using abbreviations in official communications and as a result of that delay in the prompt dispatch of business, H.E. the Vice President has ordered you and your orders so that in the official communications of the treasury offices of that province no species of abbreviations be used, except those of the treatment of your known conjectures. The scribes who contravene this disposition will suffer the penalty of rewriting what they have written if any abbreviated word appears in it. This is communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury for the appropriate purposes. Signed by Domingo Caicedo. News published in El Registro Oficial, No.45, June 7, 1832.