| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions - 1928 - 132 páginas
...lying east of longitude 171 west of Greenwich, were by the chiefs and rulers of Tutuila and AUMUU, ceded to and placed under the sovereignty and protection of the United States of America, and the government of said islands was thereupon assumed by said United States; and whereas, in administering... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1972 - 150 páginas
...east of Longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich, were, by the chiefs and rulers of Tutuila and Aunuu, ceded to and placed under the sovereignty and protection of the United States of America, and the government of said Islands was thereupon assumed by said United States ; been under the protection... | |
| Eni Faʻauaa Hunkin Faleomavaega - 1995 - 176 páginas
...east of Longitude 171 degrees west of Greenwich, were, by the chiefs and rulers of Tutuila and Aunuu, ceded to and placed under the sovereignty and protection of the United States of America, and the government of said islands was thereupon assumed by said United States; And Whereas, in administering... | |
| Sanford Levinson, Bartholomew H. Sparrow - 2005 - 288 páginas
...Tilley, who declared in Samoa at the inauguration ceremony of 1900: "I hereby declare the islands to be under the sovereignty and protection of the United States of America, and I hoist this American flag as a sign that these islands now form a part of the territory of the United... | |
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