48 U.S.C. § 1661 : US Code - Section 1661: Islands of Tutuila, Manua, and eastern Samoa

Search 48 U.S.C. § 1661 : US Code - Section 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.