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454 [Doc. 162.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE.
[This was read in the Council of State on June 1, 1736,
and it was Resolved, that, in accordance with the letter of the
College, leave be granted to Assessor Swedenborg to travel
abroad, which resolution is to be despatched at once; further,
an answer is to be sent to the College of Mines, that their
recommendation has been agreed to.
The Royal Decree granting leave of absence to Emanuel
Swedenborg for three or four years, is dated June 1, and
reads as follows:
D.
ROYAL DECREE.
June 1, 1736.
Frederic, by the grace of God, King of Sweden, Gothia,
Wendia , etc. Landgrave of Hesse, etc.
Our especial favour and gracious pleasure,
under God Almighty, to the true men and servants, the President,
Councillors of Mines, and Assessors. From your humble opinion,
dated May 26, concerning the humble petition handed in to us
by Assessor Swedenborg, in which he begs that he may be
allowed to absent himself for three or four years from the Col
lege, to finish at some place abroad his work on metallurgy
and some new principles in philosophy, which has been
commenced by him, we have graciously observed, that you
took occasion to hear some further particulars concerning the
proposed plan from the above-mentioned Assessor, when he
declared that, in case his petition be granted, he saw the
importance of his place being filled meanwhile by an able
man, and that he was on this account willing to give up half
his salary, or 600 dalers in silver, and not to demand it
again, until a vacancy should occur, so that this salary may
be at the disposal of the College, and may accrue for the
benefit of the immediate officers in order, and also that he
should upon his return to the College be entitled again to his
former seat and vote ; as we have further observed that under
these circumstances you have nothing to object to the above
mentioned petition, and as in case we give our consent
* Preserved in the College of Mines among the letters from His Royal
Majesty, for the years 1736, 1737, p. 165 .
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