Polynesian., 1850-08-31

age of the office whence the mail was sent.
Mails for the United States, shall be made up
at regular intervals at the Hawaiian post o.
ice, and despatched to ports of the United
States, the postmasfers at which ports shall
open the same, and forward the Scnclosed
matter as directed, creditipg the Hawaiian
Government with their postaees as establisk-
ed by law and stamped upon each manu-
script or printed sheet
All mailable matter destined for the Ha.
waiian Islands shall be received at the seve-
raj post Offices in the United States and fol-.
warded to San Francisco Or other ports on
the Pacific coast of the United States.
whence the postmasters shall despatch it by
the regular mail packets to Honolulu. tire
Hawaiian Government agreeing on their par,
to receive and collect for and credit the post
office department of the United States with
the United States rates charged thereupon
IL shall be optional to prepay postage on let
ters in either country, but postage on printed
sheets and newspapers shall in all cases be
prepaid. The respective post office depart
ments of the contracting parties shall. in
their accounts, which are 10 be adjusted an
nualy, be credited with all dead letters re.
turned.
ARTICLE Is. The present treaty shall be
in force from the date of the exchange of the
rati6cations for the term of ten years. and.
further, until the end of twelve months after
either of the contracting parties shall have
given notice 10 tie other Of its intention 10
terminate the same, each Of the said con-
tracing parties reserving to itself the right
OF giving such notice at The end of the said
term of ten years, or at any subsequent term.
Any citizen subject of either party in
fringing the articles Of this treaty shall be
held responsible for the same and the har
mony and good correspondence between the
two governments shall not be interrupted
thereby, each party engaging in now way TO
protect the offender or sanction such viola
ton.
ARTICLE L. The present treaty shall be
ratified by the President ofthe United States
of America, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate of the said States, and by
His Majesty, the King Of the Hawaiian Is
lands, by and'with the advice Of His Priyy
Council of State, and the notifications shall
be exchanged at Honolulu within eighteen
months from the date of its signature, or
sooner If possible.
In witness whereof, the respective pieni-
potenliaries have signed the same in tripli-
cafe, and have thereto affixed their seals.
Done at Washington, in the English Lam
guage, the twentieth day of December, in
the year one thousand eight hundredae I'd for
ty nine.
Seal.] JOHN NJ CLAYTON.
Seal JAMES JACKSON JARvES.
AND WHEREAS We have carefully examin-
ed all the points and articles thereof, by and
with the advice of Our Privy Council of State,
We have confirmed and ratified the foregoing
treaty, and We do confirm and ratify the
same, in the most effectual manner, prom,s-
ing on Our faith and word as King, for US
and Our successors, to fulfil and observe il,
faithfully and scrupulously in all its clauses.
In faith ofwhich We haze signed this rsti-
ication with Our own hand, and have affixed
thereto the geat seal Of Our Kingdom.
Given at Our palace of Honolulu, this
nineteenth day Of August, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty,
and in the twenty fifth Of Our reign
Seal. s KAMEHAMEHA,
KEoNI ANA
BY the King and the Premier.
R. c. WYLLIE,
Minister Of Foreign Relations.
EXCHANGE OF RArIFIcATIoNs
We, the undersigned, ROBERT CRrcHroN
WILLIE, Minister of Foreign Relations of
His Majesty the King Of the Hawaiian Isl-
ands, and CHARLES BUNKER, Consul Of the
United States, for Lahaina, having been au-
thorized by our respective Governments to
exchange the Ratiications of the Treaty Of
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation be-
tween His Hawaiian Majesty andtbe United
States, concluded and signed at Washing
ton, on the twentieth day Of December, one
thousand, eight hundred and forty y-nine, GER
| tify I:
That we have, this day. met for that pur-
pose, and after comparing the said Ratifca-
tions each with the other, and both with the
original of said Treaty, have effected the
exchange accordingly.
In witness whereof. We have signed this
certificate, at Honolnlu, this twenfy-fourth
day of August. one thousand, eight hundred
and fifty, and have thereunto affixed our re-
spective Seals.
RI. ST. r. C. WYLLIE.
Il. S. CHARLES BUNKER.
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