[IMPRESSION DE TAHITI] Messager de Taiti. Journal officiel des Etablissements français de l'Océanie. Paraissant tous les samedis, à 3 heures du soir. Te vea no Taiti

First edition of this issue of the Journal officiel des Établissements français de l'Océanie, published every Saturday at 3 p.m. (cf. O'Reilly & Reitman, Bibliographie de Tahiti, 10280).

With a small marginal tear along the central fold of the paper.

The official gazette of the territory, whose circulation in 1865 was 450 copies.

This issue is divided into two sections: the first, the so-called "official part," contains the text of three ordinances of Queen Pomaré IV concerning the acquisition of land, whether by donation, sale, or long-term lease, within the twenty-two villages of the islands of Tahiti and Moorea; the appointment of a district chief and president of a village council in Moorea; and the granting of remission of sentence to certain indigenous prisoners.

These ordinances, dated 14 August 1864, are signed by Pomaré and countersigned by the imperial commissioner Gaultier de La Richerie.

The text is printed in French, followed by its translation into Tahitian. The "non-official" section contains information on the state of the Tahitian population during the second quarter of 1864 (births, marriages, deaths), the provisions and postal services, the administration of justice, port traffic and the Papeete market, etc.; it also provides details on the Mexican campaign, with a proclamation of Emperor Maximilian dated 28 May 1864 following his landing at Vera Cruz.

A rare and appealing copy.