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Doc. 169.) 475
ON MINING LEGISLATION.
[Tº this memorial there are added, in the original, the two
lists referred to, but of these we do not deem it necessary
to give a translation here.]
This memorial was read in the Committee on the affairs
of the Diet, on Feb. 7, 1723, and referred by them to the
Committee on commercial affairs; by whom it was read on
Feb. 23.
DOCUMENT 169.
MEMORIAL PROPOSING TO ABOLISH THE
DISTINCTION MADE IN MINING DISTRICTS IN
FAVOUR OF COPPER TO THE DETRIMENT
OF IRON .*
Sweden has been blessed countries with
metals of various kinds. But when metals of several kinds
are found in one and the same district, it has been the
rule from olden times, to encourage the production of the
nobler metal at the expense of the less noble ; so that
where silver and copper occur in the same locality, in con
sequence of the above rule, which has since become law,
silver must have the preference over copper in the use of the
neighbouring forests and estates. Now, as this rule is so
arbitrary that no other circumstances but the nobility of the
metal are taken into consideration, I will therefore submit in
all humility some cases, by which there will be proved, that
this rule at times may militate against the common good of
the country. As for instance : Suppose a poor and meagre
copper or silver ore should be discovered in a mountain district,
where iron-mines are situated and furnaces have been erected,
by which the whole district is provided with iron, in this case
over many
* This Document is preserved in the Archives of the College of Mines,
among the letters and memorials delegated to the College of Mines by His
Majesty, the King, for the year 1723.
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