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AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT and GOVERNOR OF AMERICAN SAMOA, Appellants v. TUIKA TUIKA JR., ASUEGA FITIFITI, MILOVALE SOLAITA, IOSEFO KAPELI IULI, SAO NUA, MIKE FUIAVA, and SAVEA NUA, Appellees
    High Court of American Samoa Appellate Division
    AP No. 9-87
    AP No. 14-87
    AP No. 20-87
    October 22, 1987
    Before O’SCANNLAIN, Acting Associate Justice, KING, Acting Associate Justice, and OLO, Associate Judge.
    Counsel: .For the Appellants, Martin R. Yerick, Assistant Attorney General
    For the Appellees, Charles V. Ala’ilima
    
      
       Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, serving by designation of the Secretary of the Interior.
    
    
      
       Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, serving by designation of the Secretary of the Interior.
    
   PER CURIAM:

We affirm the order of the Trial Division and we adopt its opinion of April 24, 1987.

Our attention was called during oral argument-to Section 2(b) of Secretarial Order No. 2657 as amended, which requires approval by the Secretary of the Interior of any legislation "affecting the powers of the legislature." We are n-c. persuaded that enactment of A.S.C.A. § 37.2030 fell into that category.