On 7th of January of 1881 took place the installation of Sweet River Town [Vila do Rio Doce], created by the law # 2.132, of 25th of October of 1875, letting by this fact to belonging to the municipality of Serro.

By the law # 2.766, of 13th of September of 1881, was the Town [Vila] elevated to City [Cidade], and remained without special forum, incorporated to the County [Comarca] of Itamarandiba during some years; afterwards it was annexed to the one of Saint Michael [São Miguel] of Guanhães, and, lately, having being created the County [Comarca] of Peçanha, this one was installed on the 20th of March of 1892.

The first District Judge [Juiz de Direito] nominated for this County [Comarca] was Dr. Edgardo Carlos da Cunha Pereira, who in it exercised the judicature du- ring four years, with the general applause of its jurisditioned, having remained engraved in the memory of its inhabitants the remembrance of whom knew to accomplish with rectitude and justice the spinous mission of judge, and, as citizen, the one of having captivated, by his suave behavior, friendship and sympathy of all.

GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION

The Municipality of Peçanha is found situated in the East of the State of Minas, and limits itself with the following municipalities: with the one of Caratinga, at South, by the Sweet River [Rio Doce]; with the one of Saint Michael [São Miguel] of Guanhães, at South, by the Suaçuí Pequeno and Tronqueiras River; with Serro, at West; with the ones of São João Batista, Minas Novas e Teófilo Ottoni, at North; and with the State of The Holy Spirit [Espírito Santo] by the Aimorés Mountains, in the left side of the Sweet River [Rio Doce], at East.

The Municipality measures, from East to West, one letting the part that one can´t well calculate, from Figueira till the boundaries of the State of the Holy Spirit [Espírito Santo], already not inhabited, an extension of 30 leagues of 6 kilo- meters, and, from North to South, 15 leagues.

It is part of the 6th Electoral Circle of the State, and contains a electorate of more than 3 thousand electors; and its population, in the year of 1890, was already superior to thirty thousand inhabitants; the allotment of jurors is composed of more than three hundred qualified.

Its territory is mountainous and bathed at South of the city by the Suaçuí Pequeno and at North by the Suaçuí Grande; besides these rivers there are others, as: the Jacuri Rivero, that bathes the district of Jacuri; o São Felix River, in the distrct of Santa Maria de São Felix; and other ones, like the Matinada, in the districts of Santo Antônio da Coluna and Jacuri; the São Nicolau Grande, in the district of São João Evangelista; the Sujo, that cuts the discricts of the City and of São Pedro do Suaçuí; the Bugre, in the district of Figueira; the São José, the Ramalhete, and the Onça, in the district of the City.

The Suaçuí Grande is the biggest of all, and furnishes a variety of fish.