The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-03-13
Full Text of the Proposed Treaty of Re
eiproclty.

The following IS the Evil text Of the Treaty. as
sent to the Senate by President Grant on The 50 Of
February.
The Unitei States Of America and His Majesty
the King Of the Hawaiian Islands. equally animated
BY a desire 20 TO strengthen and perpetuate he friend
Wv relations which have heretofore existed between
Shem, and &c consolidate their commercial intercourse,
have resolved ~ gutter into = convention Ter eommer-
fetal reeiprociiyf Fer this purpose the President Of
the United SAtks has conferred full powers on Ba-
milton Fish, Secretary Of State and his Majesty the
King Of the Hawaiian Islands has conferred like
powers on the Hon. Elisha IL Allen. Chief-Jpstice Of
the Supreme Court, Chancellor Of the Kingdom.
member of the Prvy Council Of State, his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipcientiary
to the United States Of America. and the Hon. Henry
A. P. Carter. member Of the Privy Council Of State.
his MAjes,y's Special Commissioner to the United
States Of America. and said PleniPo,entiaries having
exchanged full powers, which are found 10 be In due
form, have agreed 10 the following articles
ARTICLE l. For and in consideration Of the rights
and privileges granted by His Majesty, the King Of
the Hawaiian Islands, in the next succeeding articles
Of this convention, aud as an equivalent thereof, the
United States Of America hereby agree 10 admit all
the articles named in the following schedule, the
same being the growth. manufacture or produce of
the Hawaiian Islands, in all parts Of the United
States free Of duty.
Seksduls-Rawhide, castor oil, paints, nuts, veg
etables. dried and undried, preserved and unpre-
served, hides aud skins. undressed, rice, sandal
wood. plank, shruhhery. trees, brown and all other
oAN&1N1 1e6@hS AN1-AAS 1880 80 As@@N@ -
sugar from the Hawaiian Islands, and known in the
markets of San Francisco and Portland as Sandwich
Island sugars; siraps Of sugar-cane, melado and
molasses, tallows.
ART. 2. For and in consideration of the rights
and privileges granted by the United States of Amer
lea in the preceding article of this convention, and
as an equivalent thereof. His Majesty, the King Of
the Hawaiian Islands, agrees TO admit all the articles
named in the following schedule, the same being the
growth, manufacture, or product of the United States
of America, into all ports of The Hawaiian Islands
free of duty.
SchsduIs.-Agricultura i Implements, animals, beef,
bacon, pork, ham, and all fresh, smoked or preserved
meats boots and shoes grain, -four, meal. bran,
and breadstuffs ST all kinds bricks, stone and
cement butter, cheese, lard, tallow, bullion. coal,
naval stores. including tar. pitch. rosin. turpentine,
raw and ~recti6ed, copper and composition sheeting;
nails and bolts cotton and manufactures of cotton,
bleached and unbleached, and whether or not colored,
stained, painted, or printed eggs, fish, and oysters,
and all other creatures living in the water fruits,
nuts, and vegetables, green, dried or undried, pre-
served or unpreserved, hardware, hides furs, skins
and pelts, dressed or undressed h%oop-iron, nails and
bolts, tacks, bed-springs, ice. iron and steel, and
manufactures thereof lumber and timber OF all
kinds, round, hewed, sawed and manufactured in
whole or in parts machinery of all kinds ; engines
and parts thereof; oats, hay, paper, and stationery
and books, and all manufactures of paper or of paper
and wood; petroleum and all oils for lubricating aud
illuminating purposes plants, shrubs, trees and seeds,
rice. sugar, refined or unre6ned salt. soap, wool,
and manufactures of wool other than ready-made
clothing; wagons. carts for the purpose of agricul-
ture and ~drayage; wood and manufactures of wood
and metal, except furniture, either upholstered or
carved. and carriages; textile manufactures made of
q combination of wool, Gotten, silk or linen.
ART. 8. The evidence that articles proposed to
be admitted into the ports of the United States Of
America, or the ports of the Hawaiian Islands, free
Of duty, under the first and second articles Of the
convention, are the growth, manufacture, or produce
of the United States Of America or Of the Hawaiian
islands, respectively, shall be established in such
rules and regulations and conditions for the protec-
ton of the revenue as the two Governments may,
from time to time, respectively prescribe.
ART. 4. No export duty or charges shall be inn
posed in the Hawaiian Islands or in the United States
upon any articles proposed to be admitted into the
ports of the United States or the Hawaiian Islands
under the first and second articles of this convention.
ART. 8. The present Convention shall take effect
as soon as it shall have been approved and pro-
claimed by His Majestry, the King of the Hawiian
Islands, and shall have been ratified and duly
proclaimed on the part of the Government Of the
United States, and the laws required to carry IL into
operation passed by the Congress of the United
Stated of America, such assent having been given
and the Publications of the Convention having been
exchanged as provided in Article 6. The Conven-
ton shall remain in force seven years from the date
at which it may go into operation, and further
until the expiration OF twelve months after either
of the high contracting parties shall give notice TO
the other OF his wish to terminate the same. each of
the high contracting parties being at liberty 10
give such notice to the other at the end Of said term
of seven years, or at any time before or there
after.
ARf. o. Inc present. convention snail De duly ratl-
fed, and the Publications exchanged at Washington
City within eighteen months from the date there
after, or earlier if possible.
In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaTies
of the the high contracting parties have signed the
present canon, and have affixed thereto their seals,
one in duplicate of Washington, the 3Oth of January,
in the year of our Lord, 1875. ~
rSeal1 HAMILTON FISH.
[Seal1 ELISHA II. ALLEN.
lSeall HENRY A. P. CARTER.
The President also sent to the Senate, with the
treaty. letters from DR.. Young, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, and Secretary Bristow, showing statis-
tics of the trade between the United States and the
Hawaiian Islands, and the latter favors the ratifca-
ton Of the treaty.