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. Currie to Consul Cusack-Smith.

Foreign Office, September 13, 1892.

Sir: Lord Rosebery is informed by the German Government that it is the intention of the chief justice of Samoa to make the requisition of land titles dependent on a previous survey, to be made at the cost of the party interested.

The German Government consider this proceeding to be unwarranted by the provisions of the final act, and they are of opinion that it is unnecessary in itself as well as calculated to entail undesirable delay and to throw disproportionate expense on the persons concerned.

The German consul at Apia will, accordingly, be instructed to inform the chief justice that the German Government must withhold their sanction from the measure.

Her Majesty’s Government concur in the views of the German Government upon this point, and I am to instruct you to act in concert with your German colleague in any communications which it maybe necessary to make to the chief justice if he should move further in the matter.

I am,

P. currie.