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REGULATIONS FOR NEUTRAL TERRITORY IN SAMOA

• Agreement effected by exchanges of letters signed June 7, 9, and 13, 1879
• Superseded April 12, 1890, by the General Act of June 14, 1889,^[1] with respect to those provisions with which the General Act was inconsistent; annulled in entirety February 16, 1900, by convention of December 2, 1899^[2]

Department of State files; enclosures to despatches nos. 70 and 73 of June 11 and 19, 1879, respectively, from the U.S. consulate at Apia, Samoa

 

[TRANSLATION]

Gentlemen

You are aware of the obstruction that has arisen at the present time in Samoa. Therefore we have appointed you, the representatives of the Great Governments in Apia, to direct your attention to all things that we say in this letter, that you may protect the property and lands and houses and lives of foreigners, namely:

That you representatives will adopt measures to make preparations and regulations to prevent bad conduct and disorderly practices in the neutral territory, together also with the selling and giving of the intoxicating drinks of foreigners to Samoans and the people of other islands in the Pacific Ocean.

You representatives will please also to take proper measures to enforce such regulations in the neutral territory.

This agreement is binding all the time until the last day of the present obstruction that has arisen in Samoa.

⁠May you live!

We are the Taimua of the Government of Samoa.

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1. TS 313, post, p. 116.
2. TS 314, post, p. 276.

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