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measures and weights.
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or mate. During the herring-fishery along the coasts of Bohuslän and after
notice given to the county government, the police, or the magistracy, a foreigner is
allowed to buy up fish for export, but without the right to other treatment of
it than required for its being kept fresh during the transport.
A foreigner must not be a member of the Board for a Swedish joint-stock
company, unless the King, in some special case, has granted his permission, which
must not, however, be given to more than a third of the members. In the Board
of a registered association for economic work, a foreigner must not be a member,
nor yet shareholder in a banking company. The right for vessels of foreign
nations to carry on trading in the kingdom is dependent on a special permission
given in a treaty, as mentioned above. (
From a surety having been requested for the taxes of a foreigner to State
and community during a certain time, follows that a foreigner who, after the
lapse of that period, wishes to avail himself of the license given, must renew the
surety before the expiration of the time fixed. Each time, a surety for three
years must be presented to the Governor of the Län.
A Norwegian man or woman, registered as resident in the kingdom, are
entitled to carry on commerce or other trade under the conditions stated for
Swedish subjects; they have a right to shares in ships without being restricted
to a third of the burden; Norwegian men can without any hindrance be shipped
on Swedish vessels and can also be engaged on them as captains, mates, or
engineers on the condition of having passed the examinations required for such an
employment. They can be members in the Board of a joint-stock company and
of registered associations, but not shareholders in a banking company. That
Norwegian vessels have the same right as Swedish ones to carry on trading on
Swedish fair-ways, has been mentioned above.
Measures and Weights.
The ancient system of measures and weights — of multifarious
variety —, for the regulation of which several different proposals have
been made ever since the days of Gustavus III, was at last, in 1855,
unified and transformed by means of strictly adhering to the decimal
system. The new measures then ordained had not, however, time to be
adopted everywhere before being superseded by the meter system,
accepted at the Riksdag of 1876.
The meter system became compulsory only in 1889. As early as 1869 it
had been adopted for medicinal purposes, and in 1873 at the Post. At the Customs
and the Railway the meter system was introduced in 1881.
The ordinance about measure and weight now in force is of Oct. 9, 1885.
In commerce, or else when goods are to be delivered or accepted by measure or
weight, no other implements for measuring or weighing must be used than such
as have been assayed in the kingdom. For the assay the kingdom is divided
into 53 districts of assay, each with an inspector of weights and measures and
legally commissioned adjusters. The superintendence is exercised by the Comptrol
and Assay Office of the Financial department, which office alone assays so-called
precision instruments.
Sweden sends representatives to the International bureau for measure» and
u-eights established in Paris since 1875, which has to provide States having
adopted the meter system with a standard measure (metric prototype), as also to
settle certain technical details for the attaining of full uniformity.
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