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DOCUMENT 177.
MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO THE KING,
BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG . *
I have been informed that the official agent of the mining
district of Fahlun, Mr. Muncktell, has applied to Your Royal
Majesty for permission to export 1500 skeppind of crude
copper, and that an opinion has been requested on this subject
from the Colleges of the Treasury, of Mines, and of Commerce.
The injury that would be done to the country by granting
the exportation of crude copper, may be seen from a memorial
submitted by myself to the various Houses of the Diet on the
course of exchange, where among the remedies for the restora
tion of specie payment I demonstrated the necessity of not
allowing copper, either in its crude state, or in the form
of “ plates,” to be exported from the country before the
State Bank ( Riksens Ständer Bank) has again become
a specie paying bank, as it has been heretofore. Should
permission be granted to export crude copper, this re
source would be lost. In order, however, to remove all
cause of complaint from the mining district of the Great
Copper-mountain, the following well-intentioned proposals are
made: 1. That for a certain number of years’ leave be granted
to them to coin their copper freely into “plates," whereby
they would receive, on the basis of a specie currency, 540 dalers
in copper for each skeppund of copper. 2. In case this
cannot be granted, to coin the copper nevertheless for them ,
in which case they would be able themselves to sell the
"plates” in the country, at whatever price they can obtain
* Two original copies of this “Memorial" are contained on leaves 16
and 17 in the volume of “ Riksdagsskrifter” referred to above.
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