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Wishing to provide for the security of the life, property and trade of the citizens and subjects of their respective Governments residing in, or having commercial relations with the Islands of Samoa; and desirous at the same time to avoid all occasions of dissension between their respective Governments and the Government and people of Samoa, while promoting as far as possible the peaceful and orderly civilization of the people of these Islands have resolved, in accordance with the invitation of the Imperial Government of Germany, to resume in Berlin the Conference of Their Plenipotentiaries which was begun in Washington on June 25, 1887; and have named for Their present Plenipotentiaries the following:


 * The President of the United States of America:
 * Mr. John A. Kasson,
 * Mr. William Walter Phelps,
 * Mr. George H. Bates;


 * His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia:
 * Count Bismarck, Minister of State, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,