An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union.
PL 86-3 (S.50), enacted 03/18/1959

PUBLIC LAW 86-3-MAR. 18, 1959 
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proviso of section 402(c) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act is amended by striking out "March 1, 1959," and inserting in lieu 
thereof "May 1,1959,". 
(b) The third proviso of section 402(c) of such Act is amended 
to read as follows: ^^And provided further, That, without regard to 
ci use 346,371. the requirements of sections 406(b) and 701(e), the Secretary shall 
promptly establish, and may from time to time amend, regulations 
(1) prescribing the conditions (including quantitative tolerance limi-
tations) under which the coal-tar color known as Citrus Red No. 2 
(more particularly to be defined in such regulations) may be safely 
used in coloring the skins of oranges which are not intended or used 
for processing (or, if so used, are oranges designated in the trade as 
'packing house elimination'), and which meet minimum maturity 
standards established by or imder the laws of the States in which 
the oranges are grown, (2) providing for separately listing such 
color solely for such use on such oranges, and (3) providing for the 
certification of batches of such color, with or without harmless 
diluents, for such restricted use; and such oranges, if colored prior to 
September 1, 1961, and to the enactment by the Congress (subsequent 
to the date of enactment of this proviso) of general legislation for 
the listing and certification of food color additives under safe toler-
ances, in conformity with this proviso and such regulations, with 
Citrus Red No. 2 from a batch certified in accordance with such 
i-egulations, shall not be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning 
of this paragraph." 
Approved March 17, 1959. 
March 18, 1959 
[S. 50] 
Public Law 86-3 
AN ACT 
To provide for the aclmissiou of the State of Hawaii into the Union. 
Hawaii, st at e-
hood. 
Territory. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That, subject to the 
P
rovisions of this Act, and upon issuance of the proclamation required 
y section 7(c) of this Act, the State of Hawaii is hereby declared to 
be .a State of the United States of America, is declared admitted into 
the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects 
whatever, and the constitution formed pursuant to the provisions of 
the Act of the Territorial Legislature of Hawaii entitled "An Act to 
provide for a constitutional convention, the adoption of a State con-
stitution, and the forwarding of the same to thie Congress of the United 
States, and appropriating money therefor", approved May 20, 1949 
(Act 334, Session Laws of Hawaii, 1949), and adopted by a vote of the 
people of Hawaii in the election held on November 7, 1950, is hereby 
found to be republican in form and in conformity with the Constitu-
tion of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of 
Independence, and is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed. 
SEC. 2. The State of Hawaii shall consist of all the islands, together 
with their appurtenant reefs and territorial waters, included in the 
Territory of Hawaii on the date of enactment of this Act, except the 
atoll known as Palmyra Island, together with its appurtenant reefs 
and territorial waters, but said State shall not be deemed to include the 
Midway Islands, Johnston Island, Sand Island (offshore from Johns-
ton Island), or Kingman Reef, together with their appurtenant reefs 
and territorial waters. 
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SEC, 3. The constitution of the State of Hawaii shall always be 
republican in form and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of 
the United 
States and the principles of the Declaration of 
Independence. 
SEC. 4. As a compact with the United States relating to the manage-
ment and disposition of the Hawaiian home lands, the Hawaiian 
Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, shall be adopted as a pro-
vision of the Constitution of said State, as provided in section 7, sub-
section (b) of this Act, subject to amendment or repeal only with the 
consent of the TJnited States, and in no other manner: Provided^ That 
(1) sections 202, 213, 219, 220, 222, 224, and 225 and other provisions 
relating to administration, and paragraph (2) of section 204, sections 
206 and 212, and other provisions relating to the powers and duties of 
officers other than those charged with the administration of said Act, 
may be amended in the constitution, or in the manner required for 
State legislation, but the Hawaiian home-loan fund, the Hawaiian 
home-operating fund, and the Hawaiian home-development fund shall 
not be reduced or impaired by any such amendment, whether made in 
the constitution or in the manner required for State legislation, and 
the encumbrances authorized to be placed on Hawaiian home lands by 
officers other than those charged with the administration of said Act, 
shall not be increased, except with the consent of the United States; 
(2) that any amendment to increase the benefits to lessees of Hawaiian 
home lands may be made in the constitution, or in the manner required 
for State legislation, but the qualifications of lessees shall not be 
changed except with the consent of the United States; and (3) that 
all proceeds and income from the "available lands", as defined by said 
Act, shall be used only in carrying out the provisions of said Act. 
SEC. 5. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, 
the State of Hawaii and its political subdivisions, as the case majr be, 
shall succeed to the title of the Territory of Hawaii and its subdivisions 
in those lands and other projDerties in which the Territory and its 
subdivisions now hold title. 
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of this section, 
the United States grants to the State of Hawaii, effective upon its 
admission into the Union, the United States' title to all the public 
lands and other public property within the boundaries of the State of 
Hawaii, title to which is held by the United States immediately prior 
to its admission into the Union. 
The grant hereby made shall be in 
lieu of any and all grants provided for new States by provisions of 
law other than this Act, and such grants shall not extend to the State 
of Hawaii. 
(c) Any lands and other properties that, on the date Hawaii is 
admitted into the Union, are set aside pursuant to law for the use of 
the United States under any (1) Act of Congress, (2) Executive 
order, (3) proclamation of the President, or (4) proclamation of the 
Governor of Hawaii shall remain the property of the United States 
subject only to the limitations, if any, imposed under (1), (2), (3), 
or (4), as the case may be. 
(d) Any public lands or other public property that is conveyed to 
the State of Hawaii by subsection (b) of this section but that, imme-
diately prior to the admission of said State into the Union, is controlled 
by the United States pursuant to permit, license, or permission, written 
or verbal, from the Territory of Hawaii or any department thereof 
may, at any time during the five years following the admission of 
Hawaii into the Union, be set aside by Act of Congress or by Executive 
order of the President, made pursuant to law, for the use of the United 
States, and the lands or property so set aside shall, subject only to 
valid rights then existing, be the property of the United States. 
Constitution. 
C o m p a c t with 
U. S. 
42 Stat. 108. 
48 use 691. 
Title to property. 
Land grants. 
U.S. property res-
ervation. 
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Report to Presi-
dent; conveyance. 
Piiblic trust. 
Use. 
48 u s e 691. 
S c h o o l s 
and 
colleges. 
"DefinltionB." 
48 u s e 661. 
Repeals. 
S u b m e r g e d 
lands. 
43 u s e 
1 3 0 1 
note, 1331 note. 
Certification by 
President. 
(e) Within five years from the date Hawaii is admitted into the 
Union, each Federal agency having control over any land or property 
that is retained by the United States pursuant to subsections (c) and 
(d) of this section shall report to the President the facts regarding 
its continued need for such land or property, and if the President 
determines that the land or property is no longer needed by the United 
States it shall be conveyed to the State of Hawaii. 
(f) The lands granted to the State of Hawaii by subsection (b) 
of this section and public lands retained by the United States under 
subsections (c) and (d) and later conveyed to the State under sub-
section (e), together with the proceeds from the sale or other 
disposition of any such lands and the income therefrom, shall be held 
by said State as a public trust for the support of the public schools 
and other public educational institutions, for the betterment of the 
conditions of native Hawaiians, as defined in the Hawaiian Homes 
Commission Act, 1920, as amended, for the development of farm and 
home ownership on as widespread a basis as possible for the making 
of public improvements, and for the provision of lands for public use. 
Such lands, proceeds, and income shall be managed and disposed of 
for one or more of the foregoing purposes in such manner as the 
constitution and laws of said State may provide, and their use for any 
other object shall constitute a breach of trust for which suit may be 
brought by the United States. The schools and other educational 
institutions supported, in whole or in part, out of such public trust 
shall forever remain under the exclusive control of said State; and 
no part of the proceeds or income from the lands granted under this 
Act shall be used for the support of any sectarian or denominational 
school, college, or university. 
(g) As used in this Act, the term "lands and other properties" 
includes public lands and other public property, and the term "public 
lands and other public property" means, and is limited to, the lands 
and properties that were ceded to the United States by the Republic 
of Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation approved July 7, 
1898 (30 Stat. 750), or that have been acquired in exchange for lands 
or properties so ceded. 
(h) All laws of the United States reserving to the United States 
the free use or enjoyment of property which vests in or is conveyed 
to the State of Hawaii or its political subdivisions pursuant to sub-
section (a), (b), or (e) of this section or reserving the right to alter, 
amend, or repeal laws relating thereto shaircease to be effective upon 
the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union. 
(i) The Submerged Lands Act of 1953 (Public Law 31, Eighty-
third Congress, first session; 67 Stat. 29) and the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act of 1953 (Public Law 212, Eighty-third Congress, 
first session, 67 Stat. 462) shall be applicable to the State of Hawaii, 
and the said State shall have the same rights as do existing States 
thereunder. 
SEC. 6. As soon as possible after the enactment of this Act, it shall 
be the duty of the President of the United States to certify such fact 
to the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii. 
Thereupon the Gov-
ernor of the Territory shall, within thirty days after receipt of the 
official notification of such approval, issue his proclamation for the 
elections, as hereinafter provided, for officers of all State elective offices 
provided for by the constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii, and 
for two Senators and one Representative in Congress. 
In the first 
election of Senators from said State the two senatorial offices shall be 
separately identified and designated, and no person may be a can-
didate for both offices. 
No identification or designation of either of 
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the two senatorial offices, however, shall refer to or be taken to refer 
to the term of that office, nor shall any such identification or desig-
nation in any way impair the privilege of the Senate to determine the 
class to which each of the Senators elected shall be assigned. 
SEC. 7. (a) The proclamation of the Governor of Hawaii required ^^l?''^^^,^ etc°"^' 
by section 6 shall provide for the holding of a primary election and 
a general election and at such elections the officers required to be 
elected as provided in section 6 shall be chosen by the people. 
Such 
elections shall be held, and the qualifications of voters thereat shall be, 
as prescribed by the constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii 
for the election of members of the proposed State legislature. 
The 
returns thereof shall be made and certified in such manner as the con-
stitution of the proposed State of Hawaii may prescribe. The Gov-
ernor of Hawaii shall certify the results of said elections, as so ascer-
tained, to the President of the United States. 
(b) At an election designated by proclamation of the Governor of 
Hawaii, which may be either the primary or the general election held 
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or a Territorial general 
election, or a special election, there shall be submitted to the electors 
qualified to vote in said election, for adoption or rejection, the follow-
ing propositions: 
•'(1) Shall Hawaii immediately be admitted into the Union as a 
State? 
"(2) The boundaries of the State of Hawaii shall be as prescribed 
in the Act of Congress approved 
, and all claims 
(Date of approval of this Act) 
of this State to any areas of land or sea outside the boundaries so pre-
scribed are hereby irrevocably relinquished to the United States. 
"(3) All p r o v i s i o n s 
of the Act of 
Congress 
approved 
reserving rights or powers to 
(Date of approval of this Act) 
the United States, as well as those prescribing the terms or conditions 
of the grants of lands or other property therein made to the State of 
Hawaii are consented to fully by said State and its people." 
In the event the foregoing propositions are adopted at said election 
by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the proposed 
constitution of the proposed State of Hawaii, ratified by the people 
at the election held on November 7, 1950, shall be deemed amended as 
follows: Section 1 of article X I I I of said proposed constitution shall 
be deemed amended so as to contain the language of section 2 of this 
Act in lieu of any other language; article X I shall be deemed to 
include the provisions of section 4 of this Act; and section 8 of article 
X I V shall be deemed amended so as to contain the language of the 
third proposition above stated in lieu of any other language, and sec-
tion 10 of article XVI shall be deemed amended by inserting the words 
"at which officers for all state elective offices provided for by this con-
stitution and two Senators and one Kepresentative in Congress shall be 
nominateci and elected" in lieu of the words "at which officers for all 
state elective offices provided for by this constitution shall be nominated 
and elected; but the officers so to be elected shall in any event include 
two Senators and two Representatives to the Congress, and unless and 
until otherwise required by law, said Representatives shall be elected 
at large". 
In the event the foregoing propositions are not adopted at said 
election by a majority of the legal votes cast on said submission, the 
provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective. 
The Governor of Hawaii is hereby authorized and directed to take 
certification o
f 
such action as may be necessary or appropriate to insure the submis- GoVemor!'"^** ^^ 
sion of said propositions to the people. The return of the votes cast 
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Proclamation by 
President. 
Representative. 
J u d i c i a l a n d 
c r i m i n a l 
provi-
sions. 
on said propositions shall be made by the election officers directly 
to the Secretary of Hawaii, who shall certify the results of the sub-
mission to the Governor. The Governor shall certify the results of 
said submission, as so ascertained, to the President of the United 
States. 
(c) If the President shall find that the propositions set forth in 
the preceding subsection have been duly adopted by the people of 
Hawaii, the President, upon certification of the returns of the elec-
tion of the officers required to be elected as provided in section 6 of 
this Act, shall thereupon issue his proclamation announcing the re-
sults of said election as so ascertained. 
Upon the issuance of said 
proclamation by the President, the State of Hawaii shall be deemed 
admitted into the Union as provided in section 1 of this Act. 
Until the said State is so admitted into the Union, the persons 
holding legislative, executive, and judicial office in, under, or by 
authority of the government of said Territory, and the Delegate in 
Congress thereof, shall continue to discharge the duties of their re-
spective offices. 
Upon the issuance of said proclamation by the Pres-
ident of the United States and the admission of the State of Hawaii 
into the Union, the officers elected at said election, and qualified under 
the provisions of the constitution and laws of said State, shall pro-
ceed to exercise all the functions pertaining to their offices in, under, 
or by authority of the government of said State, and officers not re-
quired to be elected at said initial election shall be selected or con-
tinued in office as provided by the constitution and laws of said State. 
The Governor of said State shall certify the election of the Senators 
and Kepresentative in the manner required by law, and the said Sen-
ators and Representative shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in 
Congress and toXall the rights and privileges of Senators and Repre-
sentatives of other States in the Congress of the United States. 
SEC. 8. The State of Hawaii upon its admission into the Union 
shall be entitled to one Representative until the taking effect of the 
next reapportionment, arid such Representative shall be in addition 
to the membership of the House of Representatives as now prescribed 
by law: Provided^ That such temporary increase in the membership 
shall not operate to either increase or decrease the permanent mem-
bership of the House of Representatives as prescribed in the Act of 
August 8, 1911 (37 Stat. 13), nor shall such temporary increase affect 
the basis of apportionment established by the Act of November 15, 
1941 (55 Stat. 761; 2 U.S.C., sec. 2a), for the Eighty-third Congress 
and each Congress thereafter. 
SEC»_„.!^. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
the Union— 
(a) the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii 
established by and existing under title 28 of the United States 
Code shall thenceforth be a court of the United States with judicial 
power derived from article III, section 1, of the Constitution of the 
United States: Provided^ however^ That the terms of office of the 
district judges for the district of Hawaii then in office shall termi-
nate upon the effective date of this section and the President, 
pursuant to sections 133 and 134 of title 28, United States Code, 
as amended by this Act, shall appoint, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, two district judges for the said district 
who shall hold office during good behavior; 
<
, (b) the last paragraph of section 133 of title 28, United States 
Code, is repealed; and 
(c) subsection (a) of section 134 of title 28, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out the words "Hawaii and". The 
second sentence of the same section is amended by striking out 
the words "Hawaii and", "six and", and "respectively". 
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U. S. D i s t r i c t 
Court. 
SEC. 10. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
the Union the second paragraph of section 451 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by striking out the words "including the 
district courts of the United States for the districts of Hawaii and 
Puerto Rico," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "including the 
United States District for the District of Puerto Rico,". 
SEC. 11. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
the Union— 
(a) the last paragraph of section 501 of title 28, United States 
Code, is repealed; 
(b) the first sentence of subsection (a) of section 504 of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out at the 
end thereof the words ", except in the district of Hawaii, where 
the term shall be six years"; 
(c) the first sentence of subsection (c) of section 541 of title 
28, United States Code, is amended by striking out at the end 
thereof the words ", except in the district of Hawaii where the 
term shall be six years"; and 
(d) subsection (d) of section 541 of title 28, United States 
Code, is repealed. 
SEC. 12. No writ, action, indictment, cause, or proceeding pending 5^^^°"*^""^*^°" ° ^ 
in any court of the Territory of Hawaii or in the United States Dis-
trict Court for the District of Hawaii shall abate by reason of the 
admission of said State into the Union, but the same shall be trans-
ferred to and proceeded with in such appropriate State courts as shall 
be established under the constitution of said State, or shall continue 
in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, as the 
nature of the case may require. And no writ, action, indictment, cause 
or proceeding shall abate by reason of any change in the courts, but 
shall be proceeded with in the State or United States courts according 
to the laws thereof, respectively. And the appropriate State courts 
shall be tlie successors of the courts of the Territory as to all cases 
arising within the limits embraced within tlie jurisdiction of such 
courts, respectively, with full power to proceed with the same, and 
award mesne or final process therein, and all the files, records, indict-
ments, and proceedings relating to any such writ, action, indictment, 
cause or proceeding shall be transferred to such appropriate State 
courts and the same shall be proceeded with therein in due course 
of law. 
All civil causes of action and all criminal offenses which shall have 
arisen or been committed prior to the admission of said State, but as 
to which no writ, action, indictment or proceeding shall be pending 
at the date of such admission, shall be subject to prosecution in the 
appropriate State courts or in the United States District Court for 
the District of Hawaii in like manner, to the same extent, and with 
like right of appellate review, as if said State had been created and 
said State courts had been established prior to the accrual of such 
causes of action or the commission of such offenses. 
The admission 
of said State shall effect no change in the substantive or criminal law 
governing such causes of action and criminal offenses which shall have 
arisen or been committed; and such of said criminal offenses as shall 
haA^e been committed against the laws of the Territory shall be tried 
and punished by the appropriate courts of said State, and such as shall 
have been committed against the laws of the United States shall be 
tried and punished in the United States District Court for the District 
of Hawaii. 
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Appeals. 
SEC. 13. Parties shall have the same rig:hts of appeal from and 
appellate review of final decisions of the United States District Court 
for the District of Hawaii or the Supreme Court of the Territory of 
Hawaii in any case finally decided prior to admission of said State 
into the Union, whether or not an appeal therefrom shall have been per-
fected prior to such admission, and the United States Court of Appeals 
for the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States 
shall have the same jurisdiction therein, as by law provided prior to 
admission of said State into the Union, and any mandate issued subse-
quent to the admission of said State shall be to the United Stdtes 
District Court for the District of Hawaii or a court of the State, as 
may be appropriate. 
Parties shall have the same rights of appeal from 
and appellate review of all orders, judgments, and decrees of the 
United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and of the 
Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii as successor to the Supreme 
Court of the Territory of Hawaii, in any case pending at the time of 
admission of said State into the Union, and the United States Court 
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the 
TTnited States shall have the same jurisdiction therein, as by law pro-
vided in any case arising subsequent to the admission of said State 
into the Union. 
Judicial and 
gjjc. 14. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
criminal code pro- ,i 
TT • 
visions. 
the Union— 
(a) title 28, United States Code, section 1252, is amended by 
striking out "Hawaii and" from the clause relating to courte 
of record; 
(b) title 28, United States Code, section 1293, is amended by 
striking out the words "First and Ninth Circuits" and by inserting 
in lieu thereof "First Circuit", and by striking out the words, 
"supreme courts of Puerto Rico and Hawaii, respectively" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "supreme court of Puerto Rico"; 
(c) title 28, United States Code, section 1294, as amended, is 
further amended by striking out paragraph (4) thereof and by 
renumbering paragraphs (5) and (6) accordingly; 
(d) the first paragraph of section 373 of title 28, United States 
Code, as amended, is further amended by striking out the words 
"United States District Courts for the districts of Hawaii or 
Puerto Rico," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "United 
States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico,"; and by 
striking out the words "and any justice of the Supreme Court of 
the Territory of Hawaii": Provided^ That the amendments made 
by this subsection shall not affect the rights of any judge or justice 
who may have retired before the effective date of this subsection: 
And provided further, That service as a judge of the District 
Court for the Territory of Hawaii or as a judge of the United 
States District Court for the District of Hawaii or as a justice 
of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii or as a judge 
of the circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii shall be included 
in computing under section 371, 372, or 373 of title 28, United 
States Code, the aggregate years of judicial service of any person 
who is in office as a district judge for the District of Hawaii on 
the date of enactment of this Act; 
^*P^^- 
(e) section 92 of the Act of April 30, 1900 (ch. 339, 31 Stat. 
159), as amended, and the Act of May 29, 1928 (ch. 904, 45 Stat. 
997), as amended, are repealed; 
^'^'^- 
(f) section 86 of the Act approved April 30, 1900 (ch. 339, 31 
Stat. 158), as amended, is repealed; 
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(g) section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore 
amended, is further amended by striking out from the first para-
graph of such section the words "Supreme Courts of Hawaii and 
Puerto Rico" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Supreme 
Court of Puerto Rico"; 
(h) section 3772 of title 18, United States Code, as heretofore 
amended, is further amended by striking out from the first para-
graph of such section the words "Supreme Courts of Hawaii and 
Puerto Rico" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Supreme 
Court of Puerto Rico"; 
(i) section 91 of title 28, United States Code, as heretofore 
amended, is further amended by inserting after "Kure Island" 
and before "Baker Island" the words "Palmyra Island,"; and 
(j) the Act of June 15,1950 (64 Stat. 217; 48 U.S.C., sec. 644a), 
is amended by inserting after "Kure Island" and before "Baker 
Island" the words "Palmyra Island,". 
SEC. 15. All Territorial laws in force in the Territory of Hawaii at 
the time of its admission into the Union shall continue in force in the 
State of Hawaii, except as modified or changed by this Act or by the 
constitution of the State, and shall be subject to repeal or amendment 
by the Legislature of the State of Hawaii, except as provided in section 
4 of this Act with respect to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 
1920, as amended; and the laws of the United States shall have the 
same force and effect within the said State as elsewhere within the 
United States: Provided^ That, except as herein otherwise provided, 
a Territorial law enacted by the Congress shall be terminated two years 
after the date of admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union or 
upon the effective date of any law enacted by the State of Hawaii which 
amends or repeals it, whichever may occur first. As used in this section, 
the term "Territorial laws" includes (in addition to laws enacted by 
the Territorial Legislature of Hawaii) all laws or parts thereof enacted 
by the Congress the validity of which is dependent solely upon the 
authority of the Congress to provide for the government of Hawaii 
prior to its admission into the Union, and the term "laws of the United 
States" includes all laws or parts thereof enacted by the Congress that 
(1) apply to or within Hawaii at the time of its admission into the 
Union, (2) are not "Territorial laws" as defined in this paragraph, 
and (3) are not in conflict with any other provision of this Act. 
SEC. 16. (a) Notwithstanding the admission of the State of Hawaii 
into the Union, the United States shall continue to have sole and ex-
clusive jurisdiction over the area which may then or thereafter be 
included in Hawaii National Park, saving, however, to the State of 
Hawaii the same rights as are reserved to the Territory of Hawaii 
by section 1 of the Act of April 19, 1930 (46 Stat. 227), and saving, 
further, to persons then or thereafter residing within such area the 
right to vote at all elections held within the political subdivisions 
where they respectively reside. Upon the admission of said State all 
references to the Territory of Hawaii in said Act or in other laws 
relating to Hawaii National Park shall be deemed to refer to the State 
of Hawaii. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect 
the ownership and control by the United States of any lands or other 
property within Hawaii National Park which may now belong to, 
or which may hereafter be acquired by, the United States. 
(b) Notwithstanding the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
the Union, authority is reserved in the United States, subject to the 
proviso hereinafter set forth, for the exercise by the Congress of the 
United States of the power of exclusive legislation, as provided by 
Laws in effect. 
Definitions. 
Hawaii National 
Park. 
16 u s e 395. 
Military, 
naval, 
etc., lands. 
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use prec. Title article I, section 8, clause 17, of the Constitution of the United States, 
in all cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land as, imme-
diately prior to the admission of said State, are controlled or owned 
by the United States and held for Defense or Coast Guard purposes, 
whether such lands were acquired by cession and transfer to the United 
States by the Republic of Hawaii and set aside by Act of Congress or 
by Executive order or proclamation of the President or the Governor 
of Hawaii for the use of the United States, or were acquired by the 
United States by purchase, condemnation, donation, exchange, or 
otherwise: Provided^ (i) That the State of Hawaii shall always have 
the right to serve civil or criminal process within the said tracts or 
parcels of land in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights 
acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed within the said 
State but outside of the said tracts or parcels of land; (ii) that the 
reservation of authority in the United States for the exercise by the 
Congress of the United States of the power of exclusive legislation 
over the lands aforesaid shall not operate to prevent such lands from 
bein^ a part of the State of Hawaii, or to prevent the said State from 
exercising over or upon such lands, concurrently with the United 
States, any jurisdiction Avhatsoever which it would have in the absence 
of such reservation of authority and which is consistent with the laws 
hereafter enacted by the Congress pursuant to such reservation of 
authority; and (iii) that such power of exclusive legislation shall vest 
and remain in the United States only so long as the particular tract 
or parcel of land involved is controlled or owned by the United States 
and used for Defense or Coast Guard purposes: Provided^ however^ 
That the United States shall continue to have sole and exclusive juris-
diction over such military installations as have been heretofore or 
hereafter determined to be critical areas as delineated by the President 
of the United States and/or the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 17. The next to last sentence of the first paragraph of section 
2 of the Federal Reserve Act (38 Stat. 251) as amended by section 19 
of the Act of July 7,1958, (72 Stat. 339, 350) is amended by inserting 
after the word "Alaska" the words "or Hawaii." 
SEC. 18. (a) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as 
depriving the Federal Maritime Board of the exclusive jurisdiction 
heretofore conferred on it over common carriers engaged in transporta-
tion by water between any port in the State of Hawaii and other ports 
in the United States, or possessions, or is conferring on the Interstate 
Commerce Commission jurisdiction over transportation by water 
between any such ports. 
(b) P^ffective on the admission of the State of Hawaii into the 
Union— 
(1) the first sentence of section 506 of the Merchant Marine Act, 
1936, as amended (46 U.S.C., sec. 1156), is amended by inserting 
before the words "an island possession or island territory", the 
words "the State of Hawaii, or"; 
(2) section 605(a) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended (46 U.S.C., sec. 1175), is amended by inserting before 
the words "an island possession or island territory", the words 
"the State of Hawaii, or"; and 
(3) the second paragraph of section 714 of the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C., sec. 1204), is amended 
by inserting before the words "an island possession or island 
territory" the words "the State of Hawaii, or". 
SEC. 19. Nothing contained in this Act shall operate to confer 
United States nationality, nor to terminate nationality heretofore 
lawfully acquired, or restore nationality heretofore lost under any law 
of the United States or under any treaty to which the United States 
is or was a party. 
Federal Reserve 
System. 
Maritime matters. 
49 Stat. 1999. 
49 Stat. 2003. 
49 Stat. 2011. 
Nationality. 
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SEC. 20. (a) Section 101 (a) (36) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (66 Stat. 170, 8 U.S.C., sec. 1101(a) (36)) is amended by 
deleting the word "Hawaii,". 
(b) Section 212(d)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(66 Stat. 188, 8 U.S.C. 1182(d) (7)) is amended by deleting from the 
first sentence thereof the word "Hawaii," and by deleting the proviso 
to said first sentence. 
(c) The first sentence of section 310(a) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act, as amended (66 Stat. 239, 8 U.S.C. 1421(a), 72 Stat. 
351) is further amended by deleting the words "for the Territory of 
Hawaii, and". 
(d) Nothing contained in this Act shall be held to repeal, amend, 
or modify the provisions of section 305 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (66 Stat. 237, 8 U.S.C; 1405). 
SEC. 21. Effective upon the admission of the State of Hawaii into 
the Union, section 3, subsection (b), of the Act of September 7, 1957 
(71 Stat. 629), is amended by substituting the words "State of 
Hawaii" for the words "Territory of Hawaii". 
SEC. 22. If any provision of this Act, or any section, subsection, 
sentence, clause, phrase, or individual word, or the application thereof 
in any circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of 
the Act and of the application of any such provision, section, subsec-
tion, sentence, clause, phrase, or individual word in other circum-
stances shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 23. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions 
of this Act, whether passed by the legislature of said Territory or 
by Congress, are hereby repealed. 
Approved March 18, 1959. 
Immigration and 
Nationality. 
49 u s e 425. 
Se pal" a b i l i t y 
clause. 
Repeals. 
Public Law 86-4 
AN ACT 
To extend the iiKluction provisions of the Universal Military Training 
Service Act, and for other purposes. 
and 
March 23. 1959 
[H. R. 2260] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That section 17(c) 
of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended 
(50 App. U.S.C. 467(c)), is amended by striking out the words "July 
1, 1959" and inserting the words "July 1, 1963" in place thereof. 
SEC. 2. Section 1 of the Act of August 3, 1950, chapter 537, as 
amended (71 Stat. 208), is amended by striking out the words "July 1, 
1959" and inserting the words "July 1, 1963" in place thereof. 
SEC. 3. Section 16 of the Dependents Assistance Act of 1950, as 
amended (50 App. U.S.C. 2216), is amended by striking out the words 
"July 1,1959" and inserting the words "July 1,1963" in place thereof. 
SEC. 4. Section 9 of i\\Q Act of June 27, 1957, Public Law 85-62 
(71 Stat. 208), is amended by striking out the words "July 1, 1959" 
and inserting the words "July 1,1963" in place thereof. 
SEC. 5. Section 203 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as 
amended, is amended by striking out "July 1, 1959" wherever such 
date appears therein and inserting "July 1, 1963" in lieu thereof. 
Approved March 23, 1959. 
Draft extension, 
69 Stat. 224. 
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note. u s e 
3201 
69 Stat. 224. 
50 u s e app. 
note. 
454 
69 Stat. 225. 
3 7 u s e 234.