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FORTIa’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN .

i to 16. The Swedifh rix-dollar, although it have the advantage in purity over that ofHolland by one grain as well as that o'f Hamburgh, is yet exchanged with both at par.

There is regularly but one mint in Sweden, which is at Stockholm : although inDalecariia there be a copper coinage on which the arms of the province are Itamped,and which has currency throughout that country and its neighbourhood.

The accounts of the crown are kept in dollars filbermunt , as are accounts in generalin Scania, Halland, Bleking, and Gottenburgh ; in thefe parts molt payments are madein paper. Bank notes are cohfidered as calh, and are even frequently taken with greateravidity. The paper of the States, particularly that ol Finland recently called in, are ata fmaller or greater difeount according to circumfiances. Merchants keep their ac-counts in dollars and oers. Thefchelling orfealing is an imaginary money, 48 of whichgo to the dollar.

Although the exchange between Sweden and other countries varies according to thebalance of trade, by the ordonnance of 1776 the courfe was fixed as under.

On Amfterdam, • 45 fchillings per rix-dollar current.

Copenhagen , - too rix-dollars .fpecie per 120 rix-dollars current.

Spain , - - 41 fchillings per ducat of exchange.

Hamburgh, - 47 fchillings per rix-dollar banco.

Lifbon, - - 22 fchillings per crufado of 400 ries.

London , - 4 rix-dollars 15 fchillings per pound fterling.

Paris, - - 25 fchillings per Ecu de 60 fous Tournois.

Stralfund, - 100 rix-dollars fpecie per 132 rix-dollars of Pomerania .

Extract of the Royal Ordonnance relative to Money , of the 27tb November, 1776.

No one whatfoever fhall be obliged, in payments above the value of a rix-doilar, toreceive a larger quantity of fmall copper coin at one time than half a rix-dollar. .

Gold coins being requifite for the convenience of trade, Swedifh ducats as well asthofe of Holland , of full weight, and with a chain round the ridge, fhall be received incirculation in concurrence with the rix-dollar at the rate of 94 fkillings or 1 rix-dollar46 fkillings; which in currency amounts at the period of the date of this to 35 dollars8 cers in copper money, or 11 dollars 24 oers filbermunt.

All purchafes, fales, and tranfaflions of every defeription regarding money, and beingin writing, fhall beftipulated from the commencement of the enfuing year in rix-dollars,and in default of compliance with this ordonnance, fhall be deemed illegal.

Weights of Sweden and Stralfund.The Skolpfund is 1 lb. which is divided into

and 1848

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96

Loths,

Ouintins,

Dragmes,

Aifes.

The four weights ufed in trade contain

The weight for provifions. Vigt. — _ ,

Mark, miner's weight. Bergverkfvigt. —

Mark, Flat country or Town weight. Lund och StadtsPound, Apothecaries’ weight, — _

The Sten,

Lifpund,

vigt. 7078741 6

32 lbs..20

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