The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-28

in hold 4. She was about $50 miles
northwest of Columbia River at the
time.
She put into San Francisco to make
repairs and when an investigation was
made it was found that a rat, in search
of water, had gnawed through lead
scupper pipe. Very fortunately the leak
was discovered in time and very little,
only about fifty bags, of her large cargo
of -four had been damaged by the wa
ter.
The leak was repaired and the yes
sci started again for the Orient on the
18th. The Eva is under charter to the
Oregon and Oriental Steamship Com
pany of Portland, Oregon. She is own
ed by NJ. j. Ibsen of Hamburg. She
was formerly the British steamer Wad-
don, being sold to Ibsen. Yesterday
she took aboard two hundred tons Of
coal and it is expected that she viii
clear this morning for Yokohama.
Registry of Hawaiian Vessels
"A native of China who was citizen
of Hawaii April II, 1900 and who has
not since lost the rights of citizenship
then obtained, may take oath as own
err of a vessel of the United States I'M
der sections Abb and 4142, Revised Stat
utes.
Treasury Department, Bureau of Navi-
CATION Washington, D c. January
! 10, 1901:
! Sir-This office is in receipt OF your
letter dated December 6, 1900, addressed
to the honorable the Secretary of the
3 Treasury, and transmitting for the de
partments consideration an application
by l.. Apana, a native OF the Chinese
Empire, for an official number Tor the
schooner Kawailani.
/ You express the opinion that Mr.
, Apana, being a Chinese citizen of the
Republic of Hawaii, is not citizen OF
! the United states entitled to receive
marine documents for the vessel The
question as to citizenship in such cases
was submitted to the Attorney Gen
| eral, who, under date of the 10th in,
slant, advises this department general
! ly, as well as in respect to the pending
application, that any Chinese person
who was in fact citizen of the Re
public Of Hawaii under it's constitution
| and laws on August II, 1898, and who
| has not since that date voluntarily
abandoned his citizenship or iegall,
been deprived thereof, is a citizen o
the UnlleQ >oIdleS.
A record of naturalization submittee
shows that L. Apana, of Canton, China
was declared formally on the 5th da.
of July, 1890, to be a citizen or the Ha
waiian Kingdom, the certificate on rec
ord being signed by c. n. Spencer
minister of the interior, and being un
der seal. Certificate of Hawaiian reg
istry, No. PA, also submitted. state
that the schooner was registered No
vember 10, 1888, by the Hawaiian Gov
eminent. as vessel of Hawaii.
The Bureau understands that tn
vessel carried a Hawaiian register il
force on the 18th day of August, 1898
| that at the time she was owned BON
fide by citizen of Hawaii and con
tinued to be so owned until her pur
chase by Apana, to whom she was sol
May 29 1900 Apana, therefore, II
citizen of the Republic of Hawaii o.
August II, 1898, and if he has not sine
lost the rights of citizenship he obtain
ed. may be considered as entitled t
take oath that he is a citizen OF tn
| United States, under sections i13I an
4142 of the Revised Statues of tn
United States, and to receive marin
documents for the vessel accordingly
on compliance with the regulation
governing the documenting of vessel
IF the United States. You will pleas
AXE action accordingly.
Official number will be granted b
, | this office in another communication
70 be used if no objection to the yes
sells registry. in accordance with thes
instructions shall appear
The papers show that the schoone