one part, and the Honorable Alexander Jones, Captain
o f His British Majesty’s Sloop of War, Talbot, and
Samuel Phelps of the City o f London, Esq., on the
other part.
ARTICLES.
1. All proclamations, laws, appointments,
&c., made by Mr. Jorgen Jorgensen, since
his arrival in this country, are to be abolished
and totally null and void, from the moment
this agreement is signed.
2. The former government is to be perfectly
restored, and the chief command to
devolve upon the said chief justice of Iceland,
and the said bailiff of the western
county of Iceland, native Icelanders, they
being the next in power in the island to
Count Tramp.
3. All officers under the Danish ©government
are at liberty to return to their offices.
4. The government shall be responsible
for the protection of all British subjects and
the property that now is and may be on the
island, and all transgressions, thefts, and
personal assaults, committed against British
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subjects or their property, shall be punished
with the same rigor, and according to the
same laws, as if the property belonged to
the natives.
5. No battery is to be erected; and the
one now at Reikevig is to be destroyed. No
militia is to be raised in the island, nor the
country in any way to be fortified or armed.
6. All officers or other persons either
armed or unarmed, who, during the late
events, have taken part with Mr. Jorgen
Jorgensen, shall no longer be in employment,
but their persons and property in
every respect (whosoever or of whatever
nation they may be) shall be respected and
protected the same as other persons and
natives.—The convention between Count
Tramp and Captain Nott, of the l 6th of
June last, shall be in full force, and be
published throughout this country without
delay, together with this agreement.
7. All merchants’ houses which are shut
up in this country shall immediately be
opened and the merchants of the said island