Confirmation by Congress of instruments of cession of certain islands of the Samoan group, signed by the native chiefs on April 17, 1900, and July 14, 19041

1. The originals of the papers in this section are filed in The National Archives with Department of State Treaty Series 314.


[853] Instrument of Cession Signed on April 17, 1900, by the Representatives of the People of Tutuila


[854] Reply of President Roosevelt to the Chiefs and People of Tutuila and Other Islands, July 21, 1902


[855] Instrument of Cession Signed July 14, 1904 by the Representatives of the People of the Islands of Manua


[856] Reply of President Roosevelt to the Chiefs and People of the Islands of Manua, August 19, 1904

  1. Received by the Secretary of the Navy on August 1, 1900; filed in the Department of State on March 1, 1902.