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INTRODUCTION .
This Section contains the results of a thorough examination
oi the Archives of the College of Mines in Stockholm , which
was instituted with the view of obtaining an authentic
account of the official life of Emanuel Swedenborg, as one of
its assessors. This investigation was carried on by the editor
of these documents during several months of the year 1869,
permission having most kindly been given him for that purpose
by the authorities of the College of Commerce, with which the
College of Mines is now combined . This College no longer
holds its meetings in the building so long frequented by
Emanuel Swedenborg, that being now occupied by the Royal
Archives of Sweden (Riks-Arkivet); but has removed to a build
ing in the “Stora Kyrko brinken” Cathedral Lane No. 9, which
was formerly the residence of Count Fr. Stenbock .
The College of Mines, although formerly an independent
department of the State, is now a branch of the College of
Commerce, or of what is more properly called the “ Department
of Commerce:" for there never was anything of the nature of
a College in the English meaning of the word in the Swedish
College of Mines. It was, and still is, the government
department, under the charge of which the whole mining
interest of the kingdom of Sweden is placed. The functions
of this college are administrative, and at the same time
judiciary, i. e. it appoints the various mining officers in Sweden,
and receives reports from them , and it also judges in all law
suits arising, in which mining interests are involved.
The College of Mines in Swedenborg’s times consisted of
a president, who always belonged to the highest order of
nobility, two councillors of mines, and about six assessors.
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