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[CITE: 48USC1661]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 13--EASTERN SAMOA
 
Sec. 1661. Islands of Tutuila, Manua, and eastern Samoa


(a) Ceded to and accepted by United States

    The cessions by certain chiefs of the islands of Tutuila and Manua 
and certain other islands of the Samoan group lying between the 
thirteenth and fifteenth degrees of latitude south of the Equator and 
between the one hundred and sixty-seventh and one hundred and seventy-
first degrees of longitude west of Greenwich, herein referred to as the 
islands of eastern Samoa, are accepted, ratified, and confirmed, as of 
April 10, 1900, and July 16, 1904, respectively.

(b) Public land laws; revenue

    The existing laws of the United States relative to public lands 
shall not apply to such lands in the said islands of eastern Samoa; but 
the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their 
management and disposition: Provided, That all revenue from or proceeds 
of the same, except as regards such part thereof as may be used or 
occupied for the civil, military, or naval purposes of the United States 
or may be assigned for the use of the local government, shall be used 
solely for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said islands of eastern 
Samoa for educational and other public purposes.

(c) Government

    Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands, all 
civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or 
persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the 
United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove 
said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.

(Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 281, 45 Stat. 1253; May 22, 1929, ch. 6, 46 Stat. 
4.)

                       References in Text

    The existing laws of the United States relative to public lands, 
referred to in subsec. (b), are classified generally to Title 43, Public 
Lands.

                          Codification

    Subsec. (d) of this section, which provided for recommendation of 
legislation concerning the islands of eastern Samoa by seven 
commissioners as soon as reasonably practicable, was omitted from the 
Code.
    Section was formerly classified to section 1431a of this title.


                               Amendments

    1929--Subsec. (d). Act May 22, 1929, substituted ``seven'' and 
``three'' for ``six'' and ``two'', respectively, and inserted ``or high 
chiefs'' after ``chiefs''.


 Authority of Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands To 
                           Enact Revenue Laws

    See section 1271 of Pub. L. 99-514, set out as a note under section 
931 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.


                Submerged Lands, Conveyance to Territory

    Conveyance of submerged lands to the government of American Samoa, 
see section 1701 et seq. of this title.


                            Cross References

    Articles, goods, wares or merchandise going into Samoa as exempt 
from payment of any tax imposed by the internal revenue laws of the 
United States, see section 7653 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.
    Entry of goods by means of false statements as excluding Samoa, see 
section 542 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
    Fair Labor Standards Act, application to Samoa, see section 213 of 
Title 29, Labor.
    Preference of American products and manufactures, inclusion of Samoa 
in statute, see section 10c of Title 41, Public Contracts.
    Relanding goods as excluding Samoa, see section 544 of Title 18, 
Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
    Smuggling as excluding Samoa, see section 545 of Title 18.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1708 of this title.
