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an integral part thereof, and under its
sovereignty, have determined to accom-
plish by treaty an object so important
to their mutual and permanent well
fare To this end the high contracting
parties have conferred full power and
authority upon their respectively APP
pointed plenipotentiaries to wit:
1.-The President of the United States;
John Sherman, Secretary of State of
the United States.
THE President of the Republic of
Hawaii; Francis March Hatch, Lorrin
A. Thurston and William A Kinney.
Article [. The Republic of Hawaii
hereby cedes absolutely and without
reserve to the United States of America
all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever
kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands
and their dependencies; and it is agreed
that all the territory of and appertain-
ing to the Republic of Hawaii is hereby
annexed to the United States of Amer
lea under the name of the Territory of
Hawaii.
Article II. The Republic of Hawaii
also cedes and hereby transfers to the
United States the absolute fee and
ownership of all public, Government or
crown lands, public buildings or edi-
fees, ports, harbors, military equip
ments and all other public property of
every kind and description belonging to
the Government of the Hawaiian
Islands, together with every right and
appurtenance thereunto appertaining.
The existing laws of the United
States relative to public lands shall not
apply to such lands in the Hawaiian
Islands, but the Congress of the United
States shall enact special laws for their
management and disposition; provided.
that all revenue from or proceeds of the
same, except as regards such part
thereof as may be used or occupied for
the civil, military or naval purposes of
the United States or may be assigned
for the use of the local Government,
shall be used solely for the benefit of
the Inhabitants of the Hawaiian stands
for educational and other purposes.
Article III. Until Congress shall pro-
vide for the government of such islands
all the civil, judicial and military pow
ers exercised by the officers of the ex-
listing Government in said islands shall
be vested in such person or persons and
shall be exercised in such manner as the
President of the United States shall d.
rect, and the President shall have power
to remove said officers and fill the va
cancies SO occasioned.
1.-THE existing treaties of the Haw-
allan Islands with foreign nations shall
forthwith cease and determine, being
replaced by such treaties as may exist,
or as may be hereafter concluded, be-
tween the United States and such for
eign nations. The municipal legisla-
ton of the Hawaiian Islands, not en-
acted for the fulfllment of the treaties
SO extinguished, and not inconsistent
with this treaty nor contrary to the
Constitution of the United States, nor
to any existing treaty of the United
States, shall remain in force until the
Congress of the United States shall
otherwise determine. Until legislation
shall be enacted extending the United
States custom laws and regulations to
the Hawaiian Islands, the existing Gus
toms regulations Of the Hawaiian
Islands with the United States and
other countries shall remain unchanged
Article ". The public debt of the
republic of Hawaii lawfully existing at
the date of the ratification of this
treaty, including the amounts due to
depositors in the Hawaiian Postal Saw
ings Bank, is hereby assumed by the
Government of the United States, but
the liability of the United States in this
regard shall in no case exceed $4,000
600. SO long, however, as the existing
Government and the present CONNER
cial relations Of the Hawaiian Islands