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archives.
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Gothenburg. The proceeds, — after deducting certain annuities — shall be
applied to the establishment and maintenance of convalescent homes for the
destitute, especially taken from the working-classes and belonging to the town
of Gothenburg, or Göteborg och Bohus Län, or Halland Län.
Archives.
The National Record Office is now the central public archives authority
in Sweden. It was originally the record office of the various Government
Departments; and it is so still, but there have been incorporated with it,
among others, the archives of the old Estates of the Realm (excepting those
of the Nobles), the older portions of the archives of old boards or offices
(in some cases down to 1850 or even later), such as the Svea Court of
Appeal (Svea Hofrätt), the Board of Trade, the Board of Mines
(Bergskollegium), the Exchequer; and many private collections of archives have
been included. There is a director-in-chief, the "riksarkivarie", who has
the right to inspect the archives of the Central Boards, of the County
Governments, of the Cathedral Chapters, etc. The Record Office is divided
into four departments, each under a First Recorder, and it is issuing a
series of important edited records.
Documents connected with the foreign policies of Sweden have, until
recently, been preserved at the Record Office, only when they dated from
1813 or earlier. Now the Department for Foreign Affairs has transferred
to it its documents down to 1860, though not yet the complete collection.
Subordinate to the Record Office is the Provincial Archives
Organisation. Four provincial archives offices had been established down to
1912, and one for Norrland is under contemplation. In the provincial
archives offices are collected and preserved the older papers and documents
(generally such as date back a hundred years, but not seldom more recent
ones) taken from the archives of certain local authorities, such as the
County Governments, District Courts, Townships, Parishes, etc. Some
towns and parishes have, however, on certain conditions, been excluded
from the arrangement. Every provincial archives office is under a
provincial recorder, and the provincial recorders have begun the inspection of
the minor local archives within their respective districts. The four
provincial archives offices are situated at Uppsala, Vadstena, Lund, and
Gothenburg.
The Central Boards have their own archives, but. as has been mentioned,
some of them have handed over their older documents to the Record Office.
Of the others, the most important is that of the Kammarkollegium (old
Treasury). It dates from the time of Gustavus I, and contains documents
and Exchequer Rolls dealing with matters of taxation and other cameral
business which is of great importance for the history of internal
administration and of culture in Sweden. The Military Archives contain
collections of documents dealing with the land-defences of the country,
hand-drawn and printed maps, marching routes, fortress-, siege-, and battle-
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