 The very first City Council meeting was on September 6, 1773, when members of the Viamão Council met in the "Vila de Nossa Senhora da Madre de Deus de Porto Alegre", former name of Porto Alegre, ordered by then-governor José Marcelino de Figueiredo.Members of the first Porto Alegre City Council were Domingos Moreira (Speaker), Manoel Velloso Tavares, Domingos Gomes Ribeiro, José Alves Velludo, and Ventura Pereira Maciel.In the early years, the City Council had both judicial and legislative powers.