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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 65, 28 December 1878, Page 3

Tu TIIK EDITOR 0* TIIK SAMOA TIMES. 11K,—LiMt miy one-sided statement should throw difficulties in the way .« the lease of LogUau ami Mauga-o-alii, it l'ajjo Pago, by Messrs. Nalhan & Co., I beg, through the medium of your advertising columns, to lay before the public an original notice from Thus. Young, United States special Marshal, ami Mr. Meredith's reply thereto, without further comments than a reiteration of the- statements contained in my letter which appeared in your last issue. Yours, &Q., LtICHD. fctETHKRIKOTON, Sol. for Messrs. 1.. I>. Nathan & Co., British Merchants.

Pago Pago, December 19th, 1878. To T. Meredith. —You are hereby notified to remove the notice now posted on a eocoanut tree in Pago Pago within .*t days or I will take it down myself as I have taken possession of the property and have it now in my possession. Yours respectfully, Thos, Youno, 1 farehal for Samoa. Leone, Dcoember 20tli, 1878. Mr. Thos. Young, IT. 8. Marshal, Sir, —In reply to your notification of the 19th insi. to remove the notice now posted on a eocoanut tree in l'ugo Pago, I would beg to refer you to Richard Hetlierington solicitor in Apia by whom I was requested to have the notice posted on said land. Therefore by removing said notice you take the responsibility upon yourself. Yours respectfully, Tuos. Meredith. rno all whom it may conX CERN. Pago Pago. Tutuila, Samoa, Dec. lit, 1878. Hon. Thomas M. Dawson, United States Consul, at Apia, Samoa, Sir, —I have the honour to inform you that, in obedience to your orders, 1 came to Tutuila to protect the interests of absent American citizens, and especially to ascertain whether Messrs. L. I). Nathan fc (.'o. had taken possession of the lands of Logilau ami Mauga-o-alii. 1 found no )iie in possession of said lands in the d firm, and have taken posse ;)f for the benefit of the itizens to whom they belong obedient servant Thomas You 's Marshal for Si

Marshal Young writes on Dec. 21st, that nfler he had taken possession of the ibove-named property some unknown inlivkluul nailed up a notice from Mr. K. Uethcrington, which he ordered taken lown. T. Meredith, Esq., writes on Dee. 21st. " In respect to thu action taken by L D. Nathan & Co., it amounts to no:hin<r. 1 have frustrated that." I'OALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. N'OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, tliaL "a mortgage of real property .liall not be deemed a conveyance, tc/ititrrr its termx, so as to enable the owner if the mortgage to recover possession of he real property [the words "real property " are co-extensive with lands, tenements, and hereditaments,] without a foreclosure and sale." Under the above statute all persons are forbidden to trespass on any of " those pieces of land situate at the Harbour of Pago Pago in the Island of Tlltuila, and respectively culled >r known as liogiiau and Mauga-o-alii." And both the notice and alleged action of ' L. 1). Xatluui & Co. by their Attorney K. I'. Oribbon, [and] witness, Uichard Uethcrington," are hereby declared illegal, aull and void ; and any person or persons found on said lauds without permission of he undersigned will bo prosecuted for trespass. Dated this tenth day of December a.h. 1878. Thomas M. Dawson, Attorney for Messrs. lielu Wellman, .1. K. C.ilobbs, James Neylan, et al, .successors to the Central Polynesian Land and Commercial Company. Witness to the transaction with L D, Nathan it Co. and the abovo signature—(!. l'ritchnrd.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. ■\TOTICE IS HEBEBY GIVEN, X\ that by mi Indenture bearing date the eleventh day of August a.l>. 1873 and made between the Central Polynesian Land and Commercial Company of the oik; part and us the undersigned L. L>. Nathan and Co. of the other part all those pieces of laud situate at the Harbour of PagO Pago in the Island of Tutuila and respectively called or known as Logilau ami ttauga-o-olii ware with their appurtenances thereunto belonging convoyed unto us by the uid Central Polynesian Land and Commercial Company by way of Mortgage for securing the repayment to us of the sum of One Thousand .Six Hundred l'ounds on the Ist day of ilanumy 1H7") and default having boon made in payment of the said sum wo have ontered into of the said lauds and hereditaments. Dated this twenty-eighth day of Nov. IH7«. L. P. Nathan & Co. lly their Attorney E. P. UIIIBUON. Witness—ltichard Hetheringtou.