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 GENERAL ACT—SAMOAN ISLANDS. J UNE 14, 1889. 1507 Each Power further engages itself to give eifect in the meantime to all provisions of this Act which may be within its authority prior _ to the Hnalratification. Ratifications shall be exchanged by the usual diplomatic channels of communication. The assent of Samoa to this General Act shall be attested I by a certincate thereof signed by the King and executed in tri licate, of which one copy shall be delivered to the Consul of each of the Signatoiby Powers at Apia for immediate transmission to his Government. one m triplicate at Berlin this fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. Jour: A. KAssoN. Wu. WALTER Pnmnrs. _ Gino. H. BA·ms. H. BISMARCK. _HOLSTEIN. · R. KRAUEL. EDWARD B. MALm·. CHARLES S. Scorr. J. A. Cnowm. And whereas the said General Act has been duly ratified by the mmmm Governments of the Signatory Powers and the respective ratifications of the same were deposited in the archives of the Im rial German Government, at the City of Berlin, on the 12th day of one thousand, eight hundred and ninety; And whereas gre Government of Samoa has assented to the said Assentof sums. General Act, as is attested by a certificate signed in triplicate at. Apia on the 19th day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety by His Majesty Malietoa, King of Samoa; Now, therefore, he 1t known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President Proclamation. of the United States of America, have caused the said General Act to be made public, to the end that the same, and ever article and clause thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. _ In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 21st day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun red and ninety, and [s1aAL] of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fourteenth. Bum. Hiuzmsox. By the President: J AMES G. BLA1N1¤, Secremry of State.