The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-01-01
HAWAIIAN
!. LIGHTHOUSES
Pass Into Federal
Control Jan.
First.

IL Action was taken from Washington
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 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. Niblack,
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
cable from Secretary Cortelyou of the
Federal Governments plan for taking
over the lighthouses punctually at the
first of the approaching year. Append
| ed to the message was a 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 Carter's cablegram in reply,
are here given:
THE Federal Government will as
sumo charge of the Hawaiian Light
house service on January first next,
temporarily taking all lighthouse keep
ers into it's employ on that day.
This department authorizes you to
furnish at it's expense supplies abso-
lutely 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; letter follows this cablegram.
Answer.
Proclamation cabled herewith.
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
Secretary Department of Commerce
and Labor.
"BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
"A PROCLAMATION.
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 it's
commercial interests;
Nov, 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
and proclaim that all the public prop
erty of the former Government of the
Republic of Hawaii ceded heretofore
to the United States, consisting of
lighthouses and the public lands adj
jacent thereto and used in connection
Herewith to the extent of five acres
or thereabout adjacent to each light
house when practicable to obtain so
much, the exact location of said land
and its metes and bounds to be here
after determined and defined by the
Lighthouse Board, light vessels, light
house tenders. beacons, buoys, sea-
markS and their appendages and all
apparatus, supplies and materials of
all kinds provided therefor and all the
archives, books, documents, drawings,
models, returns and all other things
appertaining to any lighthouse estab-
lishment maintained by the said Gov
eminent of the former Republic of
Hawaii, be and hereby are taken for
the uses and purposes of the United
States, and the Department of COM
merce and Labor, through the Light
house Board, is hereby charged with all
administrative duties relating to the
said lighthouse establishment.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this
twenty-eighth day of December in the
year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Three and of the indie
pendence of the United States the One
Hundred and Twenty Eighth.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
by the President:
FRANCIS B. LOOMS.
Acting Secretary OF State"
Governor Carter's reply was as fol-
lows:
Geo B. Cortelyou. washington.