Royal Proclamation concerning boundaries of the Kingdom of Tonga

30 TONGA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. VOL. II-No. 55. NUKUALOFA. TONGA. AUGUST 24. 1887. ROYAL PROCLAMATION. GEORGE TUBOU, by the Grace of God, of the Kingdom of Tonga, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS it seems expedient to US that We should limit and define the extent and boundaries of Our Kingdom. We do hereby erect as Our Kingdom of Tonga all islands, rocks, reefs, foreshore and waters lying between the fifteenth and twenty-third and a half degrees of south latitude and between the one hundred and seventy-third and the one hundred and seventy-seventh degrees of west longitude from the Meridian of Greenwich. In witness whereof We have, at Our Palace. Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu, set Our Hand and affixed Our Seal thereunto, the eleventh dry of June in the forty-first year of Our Reign. (L. S.) GEORGE TUBOU R. By Authority: EDWARD JOHN MARCH, Government Printer, Suva.—1887.