Mr. Thomas to Mr.
Blaine.
Legation of
the United States,
Stockholm
,
October 23, 1890.
(Received November 7.)
No. 80.]
Sir: Referring to jour instruction No. 38 of May 15
and my dispatches No. 60 of June 2 and No. 66 of July 7, I have now the
honor to inform you that on October 3, 1890, the King of Sweden and Norway
named Otto Conrad Waldemar Cedercrantz, a Swedish subject and associate
justice of the Swedish court of appeals, to be chief justice of Samoa, in
accordance with the provisions of article iii of
the treaty of Berlin.
I have also the honor to inclose herewith a copy of the note of Count
Lewenhaupt, minister of foreign affairs, informing me of this nomination,
and a copy of a translation of the commission of Judge Cedercrantz as chief
justice of Samoa, granted by the King.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
80.—Translation.]
Count Lewenhaupt to
Mr. Thomas.
Stockholm
,
October 3,
1890.
Mr. Minister: In toe note which you addressed
to me on the 2d of last June, you requested that in virtue of article
iii, section 2, of the general act signed
at Berlin on June 14, 1889, between the plenipotentiaries of the United
States of America, Germany, and Great Britain, with a view to preserve
the neutrality and autonomy of the islands of Samoa, His Majesty the
King, my august sovereign, would be pleased to name a person for the
post of chief justice of those islands.
The minister of Her Britannic Majesty and the chargé d’affaires of
Germany addressed me on the same date similar notes.
In response to a communication from this ministry that the King had
chosen for this post Mr. O. C. W. Cedercrantz, you addressed to me
another note of date of the 19th September, informing me that this
choice would be agreeable to your Government, and a similar notification
was also made by the representatives of Germany and Great Britain.
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I have now the honor to inform you that His Majesty the King has
nominated for the post of chief justice of the islands of Samoa Mr. Otto
Conrad Waldemar Cedercrantz, doctor at law and associate justice of the
court of appeals of Sweden.
In inclosing herewith a translation of the act by which the King has
nominated Mr. Cedercrantz to the post in question, I beg that you will
give notice thereof to your Government, advising it at the same time
that identic notes have been addressed to the representatives of Germany
and Great Britain near this court.
Accept, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Commission of Judge Cedercrantz as chief justice of
Samoa.
[Stockholm, October 3,
1890]
We, Oscar II, by the grace of God King of Sweden and Norway and of the
Goths and Vandals, hereby give notice that His Majesty the Emperor of
Germany and King of Prussia, the President of the United States of
America, and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, having, in virtue of an act
concerning the neutrality and independence of the islands of Samoa,
signed at Berlin on the 14th day of June, 1889, by their Governments,
requested through their representatives accredited at our court that we
would be pleased to designate a chief justice for the islands of Samoa:
Now, therefore, we, agreeably to the wish which they have expressed to
us, have named and authorized, as by these present full powers we do
authorize and name, the Sieur Otto Conrad Waldemar Cedercrantz doctor at
law and associate justice of our court of appeals of Sweden, etc., to be
chief justice of the islands of Samoa. In testimony whereof we have
signed these presents with our own hand and have Affixed our seal royal.
Done at the Chateau of Stockholm this third day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
[
l. s.]
Oscar.
C.
Lewenhaupt.
