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450 [Doc. 162.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE
to by an able and experienced man, well acquainted with
them, he desires to give up half of his salary, or 600 dalers
in silver, and he will not claim them back, until some vacancy
arise; that this portion of his salary be employed under the
direction of the Royal College in increasing the pay of those
next in order, according to their services, and the trouble
they may undergo, and that the Assessor, upon his return,
have his seat and vote in the College again.
After the Assessor had left the room, and the Royal College
had discussed the subject of some length, they Resolved that
in consideration of the above circumstances the College had
no objections to any part of the Assessor’s humble petition,
but that they submit the whole subject to the gracious
pleasure of His Royal Majesty; and should the King give His
gracious assent to the Assessor’s proposition, when it would
become the duty of the Royal College to declare in what
manner the duties of Assessor Swedenborg would have to be
fulfilled, the College recommend to the King that Secretary
Porath127 should receive 300 dalers in silver, and Attorney
Bierchenius129 and Notary Thunberg Olofsohn should together
receive 300 dalers in silver of Swedenborg’s half salary, so
that these three might fill his place during his absence.
[ Swedenborg submitted his own propositions to the College
in the following letter:]
B.
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES .
Received and read on May 26, 1736.
I thank the most honourable Royal College most humb
ly, for having taken into consideration the arguments and
motives contained in the petition which I handed in, in all
humility, to His Royal Majesty, and which have induced me
in all humility to apply for leave of absence for three or four
years, during which I might absent myself from my duties in
* Preserved among the letters (Bref och Suppliquer) addressed to the
College in 1736, p. 77.
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