Public Resolution No. 3, 71st Congress, 1st Session, Approved May 22, 1929
Joint Resolution To amend Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventieth Congress, second session, approved February 20, 1929, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes.”
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (d) of Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventieth Congress, second session, approved February 20, 1929, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended as follows: In line 1, strike out the word “six” and substitute therefor the word “seven”; in line 3, strike out the word “two” and substitute therefor the word “three”; and in line 3, between the words “chiefs” and “of,” insert the words “or high chiefs”, so that the said paragraph (d) will then read as follows:
“(d) The President shall appoint seven commissioners, two of whom shall be Members of the Senate, two of whom shall be Members of the House of Representatives, and three of whom shall be chiefs or high chiefs of the said islands of eastern Samoa, who shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the islands of eastern Samoa as they shall deem necessary or proper.”5
- See American Samoa: Hearings before the Commission appointed by the President of the United States in accordance with Public Res. No. 89, 70th Cong, and Public Res. No. 3, 71st Cong. (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1931); and the American Samoan Commission, Report (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1931).↩