The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-03
ARTICLE III.

ARTICLE III.
Until Congress shall otherwise
provide the existing government
and laws of the Hawaiian Islands are
hereby continued, subject to the para
mount authority of the United States.
The President, by and with the adj
vice and consent of the Senate, shall
appoint commissioner TO reside in
said islands who shall have the power
to veto any act of said Government,
and an act disapproved by him shall
thereupon be void and of no effect
unless approved by the President.
Congress shall within one year from
the exchange of the notifications of
this treaty enact the necessary legis-
lation TO extend TO the Hawaiian ISL
ands the laws of the United States
respecting the duty upon imports, the
internal revenue, commerce and navi-
CATION; but until Congress shall
otherwise provide the existing COM
mercial relations of the Hawaiian
Islands both with the United States
and foreign countries shall continue
as regards the commerce of said ISL
ands with the rest of the United States
and with foreign countries; but this
shall not be construed as giving to
said islands the power to enter into
any new stipulation or agreement
whatsoever, or to have diplomatic in
tercourse with any foreign govern
ment. The consular Representatives
of foreign powers now resident in the
Hawaiian Islands shall be permitted
to continue in the exercise of their
consular functions until they can re-
celve their eXequaturs from the Gov
eminent of the United States.
ARTICLE ".
The further immigration of Chinese
laborers into the Hawaiian Islands is
hereby prohibited until Congress shall
otherwise provide. FurthermC1e, Chi
nese persons of the classes now or
hereafter excluded by ,aw from enter
ing the United States will not be per-
mitted to come from the Hawaiian
Islands to other parts of the United
States, and if so coming shall be sub
ject to the same penalties as if enter
ing from foreign country.
ARTICLE V.
The public debt of the Hawaiian
Islands lawfully existing at the date
OF the exchange of the notifications of
this treaty, including the amounts
Postal savings banks, is hereby as
sumed by the government Of the Uni
ted States; but the liability of the
United States in this regard shall in
DO case exceed S3,250,000. So long,
however, as the existing government
and the present commercial relations
of the Hawaiian Islands are cOntin-
ued, as hereinbefore provided, said
government shall continue to pay the
interest on said debt.
ARTICLE VI.
The government of the United 7
States agrees to pay to Liliuokalani,
the late Queen, within one year from
the date of the exchange of the ratifi-
cations of this treaty the sum of $20,-
900, and annually thereafter like sum
of 5000 during the term of her natu-
raj life, provided she in good faith |
submits to the authority of the gov
eminent of the United States and the |
local government of the islands.
And the government of the United |
States further agrees to the Princess
Kaiulani within one year from the |
date of the exchange of the ratifica-
tions of this treaty the gross sum of
$4,000, providing she in good faith
submits to the authority of the gov
eminent of the United States and the
local government of the islands.
ARTICLE VII.
The present treaty shall be ratified
by the President of the United States,
by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, on the one part and by
the Provisional Government of the
Hawaiian Islands on the other, and
the notifications thereof shall be ex-
changed at Honolulu as soon as pos
sible. Such exchange shall be made
on the part of the United States by
the commissioner hereinbefore pro-
vided for, and it shall operate as
complete and final conveyance to the
United States of all the rights OF