INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 13702

TO PROVIDE THAT THE TERRITORY OF AMERICAN SAMOA
BE REPRESENTED BY A NONVOTING DELEGATE TO THE
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES

CLEVE PINNIX, Consultant and Staff Director

CLAY PETERS, Minority Consultant on National Parks and Recreation

NOTE. The first listed minority member is counterpart to the subcommittee chairman.

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Hearing held:

August 8, 1978.

Text of H.R. 13702_

Statements:

CONTENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1978

Hunkin, Eni F., assistant counsel, Committee on Interior and Insular

Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives.

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Lutali, Hon. A. P., Delegate-at-Large, Territory of American Samoa. 18, 27

Milner, Hon. George R., Acting Director, Office of Territorial Affairs,

U.S. Department of the Interior......

APPENDIX

Additional material and prepared statements submitted for the hearing

record...

Telegram from Hon. Peter Coleman, Governor, American Samoa, to

Hon. Phillip Burton, chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks and

Insular Affairs, dated August 5, 1978, in support of H.R. 13702____

Telegram from the Legislature of American Samoa, to Hon. Phillip Burton,

in support of H.R. 13702__.

Letter of Address in the Samoan Language from the Chiefs of Tutuila, to

Commander B. F. Tilley, U.S. Navy, dated April 2, 1900 (with English

translation attached).

Instrument of Cession from Chiefs of Tutuila to the U.S. Government,

dated April 17, 1900 (translation in English language with deed in

Samoan language).

Certification of Chiefs signatures regarding execution of Instrument of

Cession, U.S. Naval Station, Tutuila, dated July 16, 1904-

Title 48, U.S.C., sections 1661 and 1662, Acts of Congress regarding cession

of certain islands of the Samoan group to the U.S. Government

Revised Constitution of American Samoa..

Public Law 15-23, 15th Legislature of American Samoa, 1977, providing

for an elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor..

Order No. 3009, U.S. Department of the Interior, dated September 13,

1977, on the subject of elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor of

American Samoa--

Order No. 3009, amendment No. 1, U.S. Department of the Interior, dated
November 3, 1977, on the subject of elected Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of American Samoa__

Additional cosponsors of bill introduced during the 95th Congress "To
Provide that the Territory of American Samoa Be Represented by a
Nonvoting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives"___

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