Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Mr. Herbert to Mr. Foster.

British Legation,
Washington, September 27, 1892.

Sir: With reference to my previous note of this date, I have the honor, in obedience to instructions which I have received from the Earl of Rosebery, to transmit for your information copies of correspondence, as noted in the margin, relative to the reported intention of the chief justice of Samoa to make the registration of land titles in these islands dependent on a previous survey to be carried out at the cost of the parties interested.

It will be seen from this correspondence that Her Majesty’s Government concur with the German Government in the opinion that this step should not receive the sanction of the treaty powers and they have accordingly instructed Her Majesty’s consul at Apia to make a communication in that sense to the chief justice if he should move further in the matter.

I have, etc.,

Michael H. Herbert.