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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SWEDEN.
The Gothenburg system was really devised in Falun as far back as
1850, but was not more fully developed till in 1865, in the city which
subsequently gave rise to its name. The principle of this system is that in each
community the spirit traffic is entrusted to a company (»Bolag»), which
only receives ordinary interest on its invested capital, and hands over the
balance of its profits to be employed for purposes useful to the community.
Dining-room of the > Bolag■> in Gothenburg.
The first consequence of these regulations is that the company as such has no
interest in extending its business, on which account it is a common occurrence
that such companies leave part of their rights of sale unutilized.1 As, moreover,
food has to be served at every public-house, and the publican has a commission on
this as well as on non-alcoholic drinks, but not on spirits, it is in his interest not to
encourage the sale of spirits. A number of detailed regulations are also given in
many places with the object of preventing an immoderate comsumption of spirits.
This is particularly the case at Gothenburg, where the system on the whole
can still be seen most completely carried out. Here, the sale of spirits (just as in
Stockholm and at certain other places) is forbidden also to buyers between the age
of 15 and 18, while the common law only forbids selling to children under the
age of 15. The serving of spirits stops at 6 p. in. in winter, and at 7 p. m. in
summer, although, according to law, it might go on till 10 p. m. The public-
1 It ought, however, to be pointed out that the companies can transfer a license to
private people against certain rents — a circumstance which of course constitutes an
exception from the complete carrying out of the system.
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