The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-30
HAWAIIAN
LIGHTHOUSES
Pass Into Federal
Control Jan.
First.
Captain NibIack, U.S.N.,
as Sub-lnspector, to
Take Charge.
Buoys and Sea Mark IncIudssd
Territory to Advance
First Months Expenses.

AcCOn was taken lFOIH WaSllinStoii
by telegraph yesterday for the transfer
of the lighthouses on the coasts of the
Hawaiian Islands from Territorial to
Federal control and maintenance.
/. Hawaii will not of itself be a light
house district, as Governor Carter hop
ed it might be made, but form part of
California, the twelfth lighthouse DIS
trict of the United States.
Lieutenant Commander A. p. Nib,ack,
captain of the Honolulu navy yard, will
be the Federal official to take charge
of the Hawaiian lighthouses. He re-
ceived the appointment of sub-inspector
of lighthouses in the Territory of Ha-
wall yesterday morning by cable, with
orders to report for instructions to Sec
rotary Cortelyou of the Department Of
Labor and Commerce Captain Nib
lack promptly responded and now
awaits Instructions.
Governor Carter, on the part of the
Territory, received advices at length by
SetUiS 4ioiH soSTIetdiy SoitelyOu VI lilS
Federal Governments plan for taking
over the lighthouses punctually at the
first of the approaching year. Append
ed to the message was proclamation
by the President taking over all light
house property in the islands, together
with buoys and sea marks, for the uses
and purposes of the United States, and
placing the entire lighthouse establish
ment of the islands in charge of the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
The message and proclamation, with
Governor Carriers cablegram in reply,
are here given:
t'TheI Federal Government will as
sumo charge of the Hawaiian Light
house service on January first next,
temporarily taking all lighthouse keep
ers into its employ on that day.
This department authorizes you to
furnish at its expense supplies abso-
lutelyl necessary for one month, you
taking vouchers for each item of ex-
penditure and to keep each lighthouse
| in operation.
BLANK vouchers are sent you by
mail; a letter follows this cablegram.
Answer.
| Proclamation is cabled herewith.
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU.
Secretary Department of Commerce
and Labor.
by THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
ga PROCT AMATTON
! Whereas the maintenance of light
| house and other aids to navigation in
/; the Territory of Hawaii is necessary
for the safe navigation of the waters
/ thereof by the vessels of the Navy and
of the Merchant Marine of the United
States and for the promotion of its
commercial interests;
j Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States,
by virtue of the authority in me vest
ed and pursuant to Section 81 of the
Act of April 30, 1900, entitled an Act
to. Provide Government for the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, do hereby declare
land proclaim that all the public prop
Ierty of the former Government of the
Republic of Hawaii coded heretofore
to the United States consisting oi
lighthouses and the public lands ad
jacent thereto and used in connection
Herewith to the extent of five acre:
or thereabout adjacent to each light
house when practicable to obtain 81
much, the exact location of said Lane
and it's metes and bounds to be here
after determined and defined by tn
Lighthouse Board, light vessels, light
house tenders, beacons, buoys, sea
marks and their appendages and al
apparatus, supplies and materials o
all kinds provided therefor, and all tn
arch YES. books, documents, drawings
models, returns< and all other thing
appertaining to any lighthouse estab
lishment maintained by the said Gov
eminent of the former Republic @
. Hawaii, be and hereby are taken 70
the uses and purposes of the Unite
States, and the Department of Com
merce and Labor, through the Light
house Board, is hereby charged with a
administrative duties relating to tn
said lighthouse establishment.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
tof the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington tn
tWenty-eighth day of December in tn
year of Our Lord One Thousand Mir
Hundred and Three and of the Indt
pendence of the United States the Or
: Hundred and Twenty-Eighth.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
by the President:
FRANCIS B. LOOMS,
Acting Secretary of State"
Governor Carriers reply was as TO
lows:
Geo. B. Cortelyou, Washington.
Lighthouse instructions will
compiled with and proclamation mao
public today.