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When did Congress formally accept the deeds of cession for American Samoa?
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The U.S. Congress formally accepted the deeds of cession for American Samoa on February 20, 1929. While the eastern islands had been ceded to the United States by 1904, this act provided the necessary formal legislative recognition of those agreements.1