Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-24
ARTICLE III.

Until Congress shall otherwise provide,
the existing government AMI laws of lne
Hawaiian Islands are hereby continued, SUD-
iect to the paramount authority OF the
United States. The President 10y and WIN
the advice and consent of the Senate, shaI!
annoint a comm IS oner to reside in said
islands. who shall have the power to veto
any act of said government, and an act dis
approved by him shall thereupon be Void
and of no effect unless approved by the
President.
Congress shall within one year from the
excbanye of the ratifications of this treaty
enact the necessary legislation TO extend TO
the Hawaiian Islands the laws OF the United
States respecting duties upon imports, the
internal revenue, commerce ana Navigation,
hut until Congress shall Otherwise ovide,
the existing commercial relations OF the
Hawaiian Island-, both with the United
States and foreign countries, shall continue
as regards the comme ce OF said Islands With
the rest of the United St.tes and foreign
countries, but this shall not be construed as
giving to said islands the power to enter into
any new stipulation or agreement whatso-
over or TO have diplomatic intercourse With
apy il reign government. The consular rep
resentativss of foreign powers, now resident
in the Hawaiian Islands, shall be permitted
TO continue in the exercise OF their consular
functions until they can receive their exc
ouaturs from the government OF the Unltel
States.
ARTICLE ".
The further immigration of Chinese labor
ers into the Hawaiian Islands is here pro-
hibited until Congress shall otherwise pro
vide. Furthermore, Chinese Ierson> OF the
classes now or hereafter excluded by Law
from entering the United States will not be
nermitted to come from the Hawaiian
islands 10 other parts of the United States
and if so coming, shall be subject to the
same penalties as il entering from foreign
country.
ARTICLE v.
The public debt of the Hawaiian Islands
lawfully existing at the date OF the exchange
of the ratification of this treaty, including
the amounts due to depositors IN the Ha-
waiian postal savings banks, is hereby as
sumed by the government OF the United
States but the liability of the United States
in this regard shall iu no case exceed three
and one-quarter millions OF dollars. 80
long however as the existing government
and the present commercial relations OF the
Hawaiian Islands are continued, as herein
before provided, said government hall con-
tinue to pay the interest on said indebted
ness.
ARTICLE VI
The government of the United States
agrees to pay to Liliuokalan the queen,
within one year from the date OF the ex-
change of the rati6ca ions of this treaty, the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, ana annu-
ally thereafter like sum of twenty thou,
sand dollars during the term OF her natural
life provided she in good faith submits 10
the authority of the government OF IN !,
United States and the local government OF
| the islands
And the government Of the United States
further agrees to pay to the Princess kalu-
lani, within one year from the date Oh tne
exchange of the rati6cations of this treaty,
the gross sum Of one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, provided she, in good faitn,
submits to thu authority of the government
of the United States and the local govern
ment of the islands.
ARTICLE VII
The present treaty shall be ratified ny tne ,
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 ths other, ana
the notifications thereof shall be exchanged
at Honolulu as soon as po. slble. oucn eA'
change shall be made on the part OF tne
| TTnitsd States by the commissioner herein
before provided for, and it shall opsrat a. q
complete and final conveyance to the Unlted
states of all the rights of sovereignty and
property herein ceded to them. Within one
month after such exchange of ratifcatioonIs
the provisional government shall furnish
said commissioner with a full and complete
schedule of all the public property herein
ceded and transferred. -;
In witness whereof, the respective plenl-
potentaries have sgned the abov. articles
and have hereunto affixed their seals:
Done in duplicate at the city OF Washing
ton, this fourteenth day OF February, one
thousand eight hundred and nnety-three'
JOHN W. FOSTER. GSeai
LoRIN A. TBURsToN [Seal.l
WILLIAM R. CASTLE. tSeal j
WILLIAM C.. WILDER. Zeal
CHARLES r. CARTER. Seal
| .JOsEPH MARSDEN. lSeal.J