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416 [ Doc. 151.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE.
2. The Board of Mines are willing that he should
select the most suitable place and the ablest smelters for the
trial; but they cannot order any miner, after having been in
want of coal
, now that the coal is beginning to come in, to
leave his works and give up his smelters and roasters, before
having finished the ore he has in hand. Moreover, in con
nection with this paragraph, there is this to be mentioned,
that before the reward which the Assessor claims in his thirteenth
paragraph can become his, it is his business to see that all those
who may be charged with paying his reward, have equally good
smelters, and places as serviceable as that which he chooses
to select: for all the circumstances that belong to the subject
in question, and have to be considered in regard to the Assessor,
must also be taken into consideration on behalf of the mining
district.
From the fact that this right of selection is demanded we
conclude that many of the usual situations for mining -works
are unsuitable for the new process, even as the labourers them
selves are unused to it and untaught, and they have not
all the same facilities for learning speedily this new process.
For this reason also no one can be charged for this eleventh
skeppund for compensation, who has not enjoyed all those ad
vantages which the Assessor himself has had in m :iking his
trial. Moreover, both opportunity, willingness, and ability to
pay this compensation will be wanting with most mine -owners
and labourers, and in collecting it as many disputes will arise
as there are differences between their own works and the
work where the trial has been made for the Assessor.
3. The Board of Mines consider it not only necessary that
the labourers on both sides should be pledged by an oath ;
but on account of the importance of this matter the Board
of Mines desire also to have two good men, who would take
turns in being present at the Assessor’s trial, even as the
Assessor is at liberty to do the same in the trial made by
the mining district – and this for the purpose of removing
suspicion on both sides.
4. It does not seem to be a matter of consequence who
makes the first, and who the last trial. But it seems best
that the trials on both sides should be made at the same time;
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