Chapter 6.
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CHAP. 6.— Joint Resolution To amend Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventieth Congress, second session, approved February 20, 1929, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes.” May 22, 1929.[[S. J. Res. 36](/us/bill/71/sjres/36).][[Pub. Res., No. 3](/us/bill/71/pubres/3).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph
(d)ofSamoan Islands cessions.Vol. 45, p. 1253, amended. Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventieth Congress, second session, approved February 20, 1929, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying, and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended as follows: In line 1, strike out the word “six” and substitute therefor the word “seven”; in line 3, strike 4out the word “two” and substitute therefor the word “three”; and in line 3, between the words “chiefs” and “of,” insert the words “or high chiefs”, so that the said paragraph
(d)will then read as follows: " “(d) Commissioners to recommend legislation. The President shall appoint seven commissioners, two of whom shall be Members of the Senate, two of whom shall be Members Additional Samoan member authorized.*Post*, p. 9.of the House of Representatives, and three of whom shall be chiefs or high chiefs of the said islands of eastern Samoa, who shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the islands of eastern Samoa as they shall deem necessary or proper.” " Approved, May 22, 1929.