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Article VI. The King, in conjunction with the German Consul, shall appoint Police, who shall attend to the prison service and the security of the German plantations. The same shall be subject to the orders of the German officer in the Samoan Government. Article VII. The necessary expenses arising in consequence of this Agreement shall be defrayed out of the Court fees, fines, receipts from convict labour, and out of the taxes to be levied on the Germans interested. The control of this money shall be intrusted to a representative of the German taxpayers. The levying of such taxes, also the fixing of the amount of expenses, takes place through the German-Samoan State Council. Article VIII. This Agreement has immediate force, subject to the approval of the Imperial German Government. So long as this is not given, the payment of taxes cannot be demanded from German subjects. The Imperial German Government shall have the power to abrogate this Agreement, in which case it loses legal force after a lapse of six months. In testimony whereof we have herewith subscribed our signatures. Done in the Imperial Consulate at Apia, the 10th November, 1884. (Signed) Dr. Stuebel, Acting German Consul. (Signed) Malietoa. Theo. Webee, Witness. Lb Tupo o Samoa.

APPENDIX IV. The King of Samoa to the Beitish Consul, Apia. To W. B. Churchward, Esq., Acting British Consul. Sib, — Mulinuu, 12th November, 1884. I wish to inform your Excellency that I have written to Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, and made known to Her Majesty our petition, which has been communicated to the Governor of New Zealand. It is mentioned in that letter that I have begged your Excellency to explain to Her Majesty everything that gave rise to my receiving the Agreement which was made last night with Germany, I and my Government having been much distressed lest our group of Islands should be taken by Germany. I wrote yesterday to the German Consul, to give me a copy of the Agreement he wished with me and my Government. The German Consul replied that he could not give me and my Government a copy. Then the whole Government met together and deliberated what was right to do; and it ended in our rejecting the Agreement, and it was not received. Notwithstanding that, our distress still continued. It was getting near the hour of night which was fixed for the meeting, and I walked on the road, when Tupua Tomasese came down. He spoke to me with distress, and told me that same bad story. I and Tomasese, bearing in mind the Agreement, were very anxious; and I said, "Let us both go down and receive the Agreement, in order that we may be at peace to-day; and let us wait for the decision of Great Britain." I beg your Excellency to make known to Her Majesty the great love of me and my Government for Great Britain. I hope Her Majesty will not bear in mind this Agreement with Germany. I am determined, when the Government of Her Majesty is in these Islands, then that Agreement shall end. Let not your Excellency be offended, but do make these things clear to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, and send this letter by the steamer at Tutuila. Malietoa, King of Samoa.

APPENDIX V. Tbeatt of Ebiendship, &c. between Her Majesty the Queen of Gbeat Bbitain and Ireland1 and the King and Govebmment (Malo) of Samoa. Her Majesty the Queen of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the King and Government (Malo) of Samoa, being desirous to establish relations of friendship between their respective dominions and subjects, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named, as their Plenipotentiaries,— Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, &c.— The Honourable Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and St. George, Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Consul-General for the Western Pacific, Governor of Fiji; and Alfred Percival Maudslay, Esquire, one of Her Majesty's Deputy Commissioners for the Western Pacific ; And the King and Government (Malo) of Samoa, — The High Chief Malietoa Laupepa ; and the High Chief Saga; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:— Article I. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty and those of the Samoan State.