Barreira
Explains the 'bardo', a fence of stakes and branches separating cultivated land from common pastures to keep free-roaming livestock out, and its regulation by municipal ordinances.
What should properly be called a barreira (barrier) the people of this island call a hedge (bardo): the fence or palisade made of stakes and tree branches, intended to stop the livestock that grazed freely on the mountains and common lands (baldios) from coming down into the settlements and cultivated land. These hedges were, and still are, common here, and they generally formed the dividing line between cultivated land and the common grounds used for grazing livestock and gathering firewood and brushwood. The old municipal bylaws (posturas) of some of the councils of this archipelago contained various provisions concerning hedges, the grazing of livestock, etc. Current legislation has profoundly altered those municipal laws and established other provisions, chiefly those concerning the freedom of sheep, goats and pigs to graze on the so-called common grounds.