It is hereby directed that the Department of Commerce and Labor take charge of and use the proper measures for establishing and maintaining lights and other aids to navigation in the waters of the island of Tutuila and other islands of the Samoan Islands east of longitude 171° west, and have estimates prepared by the Light-House Establishment and submitted to Congress for an appropriation to defray the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of these aids to navigation.

Signature of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt.

White House,

July 3, 1905.


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