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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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t,solidarisk) banking company. There are moreover certain railway companies
whose articles of association do not permit a foreigner to own shares in them.
Aliens are not entitled to give public entertainments or to take part in them
without a license, for which application must be made to the police authorities.
License is not granted for more than three months at a time. An
indispensable condition for getting a license of this kind renewed is that the fee on
account of the previous license shall have been paid.
There is nothing to prevent a foreigner acting as a procurator for a
joint-stock company or a registered society.
The right for the vessels of alien nations to carry on cargo trade in Sweden
is a matter of treaty.
It has been stated above that in certain cases the Swedish law requires a
foreigner to furnish security for the due payment of his rates and taxes, for
three years. When the three years period has expired, he will be obliged to
have the security renewed for another period of three years, if he wishes to
continue in the enjoyment of his license. The new security is, as before, lodged
with the Governor of the Län.
During the days of the Union with Norway, Norwegian subjects were in
important particulars, placed on the same footing as Swedish subjects. With
the Dissolution of the Union in 1905, these privileges ceased to exist. However,
the new regulations did not have retroactive effect, so that Norwegians who
had already acquired property, trading rights, or other privileges in Sweden,
are-still allowed to continue in the enjoyment of those rights.
Weights and Measures.
The motley ancient Swedish system of weights and measures, for the
reform of which a variety of proposals had been brought on the carpet
ever since the days of Gustavus III, was reformed and unified in 1885,
in strict accordance with the decimal system. However, the new measures
which had scarcely come into complete operation before they were
superseded by the adoption of the metrical system, which the Riksdag
of 1876 carried through.
The metrical system became obligatory from 1889. However it has been
adopted for medical purposes as early as 1869, and in the Post Office as early
as 1873. The metrical system was used in the Customs and in the
State-Railways in 1881.
The present law as to weights and measures is the Ordinance of 1885. For
commercial purposes no other instruments shall be used for measuring or
weighing but those that have been tested (justerade) in Sweden. For the
purpose of testing weights and measures, Sweden is divided into 53
justeringsdistrikt, or inspection districts, each superintended by an official called
justering-s-kontrollör, assisted by subordinates called justerare. The supervisory board is
the Royal Mint and Assay Office, which has the sole right of testing
instruments of precision.
Sweden sends a deputy to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures,
founded in 1875, which has its headquarters at Paris. The object of that
institution is to furnish States who have adopted the metrical system with
standard weights and measures, and to determine certain technical details in order
to attain perfect uniformity.
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