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DOCUMENT 178 ..
MEMORIAL TO THE HOUSE OF NOBLES,
IN WHICH SWEDENBORG DECLINES TO BE A
MEMBER OF THE PRIVATE COMMISSION
ON EXCHANGE . *
I thank you for the honour of inviting me to attend the
Private Commission on Exchange, but the Honourable House of
Knights and Nobles will please to excuse me from becoming
a member of said commission, before I am convinced that
the provisional committee, collected by Nordencrantz,133 the
Councillor of Commerce, is authorized by law, and that it is
not partially or entirely absorbed and thus incorporated in said
Commission ; inasmuch as this provisional Committee has not
been appointed and ordered according to the statutes of the
government regarding electors, but all its members to the
number of 48 have been nominated from three Houses by
Nordencrantz,133 the Councillor of Commerce, alone, and he has
bound them by an oath not to divulge what is transacted
there; which is yet opposed to the law and safety of our
country, and also to many of the councillor’s own expressions
and objections recorded in his book.
The Honourable House of Knights and Nobles will, moreover,
please to have submitted and read to them the oath, which
has been taken in the above-named provisional Committee ;
and also to regulate and prescribe, as usual, the oath which
shall be found necessary to be taken by those members of
the Commission that have been nominated by Councillor
* The original of this memorial is contained in the volume of “ Riksdags
skrifter ” referred to above, on leaf 48.
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