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. Wharton to Baron Ketteler.

Department of State,
Washington, October 19, 1892.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your note of the 15th instant, communicating copies of two communications from Her Britannic Majesty’s Government to the imperial German ambassador at London, informing him of the concurrent intention of the British Government to refuse its assent to the proposed ordinance of the chief justice of Samoa making the registration of land titles held by foreigners in those islands conditional in each case on a previous survey of the land, and imposing a special fee for such registration.

Accept, sir, etc.,

William F. Wharton,
Acting Secretary