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Rh To Your Excellencies, the representatives appointed by the Great Governments in Apia.

Government House



Secretary of the Government.

We hereby certify that the within document was signed in our presence at Leulumoega, Aana, on the 7th day of June A.D. 1879

Apia, Samoa 9th June 1879

[In a despatch of June 11, 1879, the U.S. consul at Apia, Samoa, stated that "on the 9th inst. Malietoa addressed a precisely similar document to each of the Consuls."]

Apia 13 June 1879

Gentlemen:

We have received your letter by which you have appointed us that we should direct our attention to measures and regulations for the protection of the property, and lands, and houses and the lives of foreigners; that we should also together direct our attention to things thus in the neutral territory, to prohibit also the selling and giving of the intoxicating drinks of foreigners to Samoans and the people of other islands in the Pacific Ocean;