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
The foregoing Instrument of Cession3 was duly signed by Leoso
in the presence of and at the request of the Chiefs and representatives of the Division of Fofo and
Aitulagi and by Pele in the presence of
and at the request of the Chiefs and
representatives of the Division of Sua and Vaifanua in Tutuila in
conformity with a Samoan Custom as to signatures to documents in my
presence at Pagopago on the 17th day of April
1900 A. D. immediately prior to the raising of the United
States Flag at the United States Naval Station, Tutuila.
[854] Reply of President Roosevelt to the Chiefs and People of Tutuila and Other Islands, July 21, 1902
White House, Washington
,
July the twenty-first, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.
July the twenty-first, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.
[855] Instrument of Cession Signed July 14, 1904 by the Representatives of the People of the Islands of Manua
In Testimony
Whereof I have caused the seal of the Court to be affixed
this 16th day of July
in the year 1904.
[856] Reply of President Roosevelt to the Chiefs and People of the Islands of Manua, August 19, 1904
White House, Washington
August 19, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
four.
[857] Public Resolution No. 89, 70th Congress, 2d Session, Approved February 20, 1929
Approved, February 20, 1929.
- Received by the Secretary of the Navy on August 1, 1900; filed in the Department of State on March 1, 1902.↩