(Signed) Krieger.
(Signed) { For Alfred G. Lock,
{ A. de C. Crowe.
Witnesses—
(Signed) Ricard.
( ” ) Poulsen.
The value of the stamp on this contract is calculated at 9 rigsd. to the pound sterling.
NOTE II.
Report of the Althing.
Report drawn up by the Committee elected for this purpose by the Icelandic “Althing” of 1869, translated after the original Icelandic text from the “Althing” reports.
We, the undersigned, have, by the honourable “Althing,” been elected into a Committee, to state our opinion as to a memorial which about three years ago has been sent in to the Government by an English gentleman, Mr Lock, importing his wish to take lease of the sulphur mines in the north of Iceland, situated between 65° 20´ north latitude and the Arctic Sea, or, otherwise speaking, the mines lying on the said tract, east of “Myvatn” (Gnat Lake) and west of Jökulsá (Glacier River).
Before stating our opinion about this matter, we think it necessary that it should be clearly understood by the honourable Assembly—
1. How the matter now stands with the sulphur mines in question.