Star. — 1831-04-16 (London, England)

JAMZS HAEUMU. OAHU, Ocv. 7, 11129. This is my decision for you : we assent to the request of the English residents; we grant the protection of the laws ; that is the sum of your petition. This, therefore, Is my proclamation, which I make known to you, all people from foreign countries I—The laws of my country prohibit Murder, Theft, Adultery, Fornication, Retailing Ardent Spirits at houses for selling spirits, Amusements on the Sabbath day, Gambling and Betting on the Sabbath day, and at all times. If any man shall transgress any of these laws, he is liable to the penalty, the same to every foreigner and for the people of these Islands, whoever shall violate these laws shall be punished. This also I male known,—The Law of the Great God of heaven, that is the great thing by which we shall promote peace; let all men who remain here obey it. Christian Marriage is proper for men and women. But If a woman regard her man as her only husband, and the man regard his woman as his only wife, they are legally husband and wife; but if the parties are not married. nor regard themselves as husband and wife, let them forthwith entirely separate. 11. This is also our decision, which I now declare to you. —We have seen your wickedness heretofore. You did not warn us that your dooryards and enclosed plantations were tabu before the time when our animals went into your enclosures ; you unhesitatingly killed our aufmals. But we warned you of the tabu of our platstalons before the time when the animals came into them, even yours; and then it was told again to you that have ealtle ; but for :some dots past we have known your tattle to come in to eat up what we had planted; on that account some of your cattle are dead. This then is the way to obtain justices if you judged the matt guilty, you are not forthwith to punish him ; wait till we have a consultation first: then, had we judged him guilty, we would have given you damages ; but no, you rashly steel-ondtlegitiOnitirg4 the man ; that is one of the crimes of two of you. And we rtSie to you all that the wounding of a beast is by no mean, quer to the wounding of a man, inasmuch as man is lord over all the beasts. This is our communication to you all, ye parents from the coutitti... whence originate the winds : have companion on a nation of little children, very small and young, who are yet in mental darkness., and help us to do right and follow with us that which will be for the best good of this our country. M. As to the recent death of the cow ; she died for breaking a tabu for the protection of the plantation. The place was defended also by a fence, built by the owner of the plantation. Having Av. cured his field by a fence, what remained to be done was the duty to the owners of cattle, who were told by him who had charge of the plantation, to bring home their cattle at evening. He did tell then, so, but they did not regard it ; and in the night they canoe in, but not by day. On that account, the owner of the hoped to recover damage ; for many were the cattle that were taken up before, but no damage wm recovered for the crop they had devoured ; the owners plead them off without paying damage, therefore he to whom the crop belonged determined that one of dm cattle should die, for destroying the crop; for it had been said, that if any of the cattle should come into the enclosure devouring the crop. such cattle would be forfeited and become the property of the owner of the expected crop. Many have been seised, but they were begged off and gives up again ; this has been done many times. Why then are you so quick to be angry ? For within the enclosure was the place where the cow was wounded, after which she made her way out. What then means your declaration that the cow was wantonly shot in the common. The cow would not have been killed for simply grazing in the common pasture ; her feeding upon the cultivated crop was well known by those who bad the care of the plantation. (Signed)