The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-26

lOf the Denent or those VINO ala no
read it at the time. it is republishet
here:
The United States of America and the
| Republic OF Hawaii, in View of the nat
| ural dependence of the Hawaiian Islands
| upon the United States, of their geo.
| graphical proximity thereto, of the pre-
| ponderant share acquired by the United
| States and its citizens in the industries
| and trade of the Islands and of the ex-
| pressed desire of the Republic of Hawaii
| that those Islands should be Incorporated
| into the United States as an integral part
| thereof, and unuer its sovereignty, have
| determined to accomplish by treaty an
| object so important to their mutual and
| permanent welfare. To this end the high
contracting parties have conferred full
| power and authority upon their respec-
| lively appointed plenipotentiaries, to-wit:
| The President of the United States, John
| Sherman, Secretary OF State of the Unit
| ed States; the President of the Republic
of Hawaii, Francis March Hatch, Lorrin
A Thurston and William a. Kinney.
Article 1.-The Republic of Hawaii
hereby cedes absolutely and without re-
serve 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 appeartaining to
the Republic of Hawaii is hereby an
nexed to the United States of America
under the name of the Territory of Ha-
waii.
ARTICLE 1.-THE Republic of Hawaii
also cedes and hereby transfers to the
United States the absolute fee and own
ership of all public, Government or crown
lands public buildings or edifices, ports,
harbors, military equipments and all 9th
er public property of every kind and de-
scription belonging to the Government of
the Hawaiian Islands, together with eV-
cry right and appurtenace thereunto ap-
pertaining.
1.-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 reve-
nue. 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 Islands for educational and
other purposes.
article III-Untn Congress shall pro-
VfIe for the government of such Islands
all the civil, judicial and military powers
exercised by the officers of the existing
Government in said Islands shall be vest
ed in such person or persons and shall be
vested in such person or persons and
shall be exercised in such manner as the
President of the United States shall di-
rect, and the President shall have power
to remove said officers and fill the vacan-
cies so occasioned The existing treaties
of the Hawaiian Islands with foreign ma
tons shall forthwith cease and deter
mine, being replaced by such treaties as
may exist or as may be hereafter con-
cluded between the United States and
such foreign nations. The municipal leg
islation 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 Con-
stitution 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 extend
ing the United States customs laws and
regulations to the Hawaiian Islands, the
existing customs relations of the Hawai-
ian Islands with the United States and
Article IV-The public debt of the Re-
public of Hawaii lawfully existing at
the date of the ratification of this treaty,
including the amounts due to depoSltorS
in the Hawaiian Postal Savings 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 S4, 900, 900. So long, however,
as the existing Government and the
present commercial relations of the Ha-
waiian Islands are continued, as herein
before provided, said Government shall
continue to pay the interest on said debt
Article Where shall be no further
immigration of Chinese into the Hawai-
ian Islands, except upon such conditions
as are now or may hereafter be allowed
by the laws of the United States, and no
Chinese by reason of anything herein
contained, shall be allowed to enter the
United States from the Hawaiian Islands.
Article VI.-The President shall ap-
point five Commissioners, at least two
of whom shall be residents of the Ha-
waiian Islands, who shall, as soon as rea-
sonably practicable, recommend TO Con-
gress such legislation concerning the
Territory of Hawaii as they shaH deem
necessary or proper.
Article NlI.-IhlS treaty SIldIl DC iS@I-
flied by the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, on the one part, and
by the President of the Republic of Ha-
waii, with the consent and advice of the
Senate, in accordance with the Constitu-
ton of the said Republic, on the other
and the ratification hereof shall be eX-
changed at Washington as soon as pos
sible.
In witness whereof the respective
have signed the above
articles and have hereunto affixed their
seals.
Done in duplicate at the City Of Wash
ington this sixteenth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and ninetyrseVen-
JOHN SHERMAN,
''FRANCIS MARCH HATCH,
'LORRIN A THURSTON,k
WILLIAM a. KINNEY"