GOVERNORS OF ISLANDS, Act to institute Hospitals for the Sick Poor, Act to regulate the shipping and discharge of Native Seamen, Act to regulate the Shipping of Foreign Seamen, HIS LATE MAJESTY'S ESTATE, Act declaring the period at which all subjects be- LEGISLATURE OF 1855, LOAN, Appropriating money for, Act authorizing the Minister of Finance to negotiate a, Act providing for the employment of Prisoners on MILITARY, Joint Resolution appropriating money for, MINISTER OF FINANCE, Authorized to set apart money for the Legis- lature of 1855, Authorized to appoint Enumerators, 2 31 To pay interest monthly on the Exchequer Bills given the Queen Dowager, Authorized to negotiate a Loan, Authorized to pay such sums as may be appro- priated by the King in Council in case pes- 8 36 MINISTER OF FINANCE, To submit, biennially, estimates of the Revenue His late Majesty, Authorized to pay drafts drawn by the Minister Authorized to pay the Military and Police, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, To employ Prisoners on Public Works, Authorized to sell the Lots of Waikahalulu, To report to the Board of Health any nuisance delete- To take charge of the Reservoirs and Hydrants, Act to regulate the shipping and discharge Act to regulate the shipping and discharge 1 29 TREATY BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY KAMEHAMEHA III, KING OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY VICTORIA, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH &c. &c. KAMEHAMEHA III. King of the Hawaiian Islands, to all whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation, between Us and Her most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c. &c., &c., was concluded and signed at Honolulu, on the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, by the Plenipotentiaries of Us and of the said Queen of Great Britain, duly and respectively authorized for that purpose, which treaty is word for word as follows: HER MAJESTY the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, being desirous to maintain and improve the relations of good understanding which happily subsist between them, and to promote the commercial intercourse between their respective Subjects, have deemed it expedient to conclude a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, and have for that purpose named as their respective Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Willliam Miller, Esquire, Her Consul General for the Islands in the Pacific Ocean: And His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, Robert Crichton Wyllie, Esquire, His Minister of Foreign Relations, Member of His Privy Council of State and of His House of Nobles: Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: Article 1. There shall be perpetual Friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Her Heirs and Successors, and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, His Heirs and Successors, and between their respective Subjects. Article 2. There shall be between all the Dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, and the Hawaiian Islands, a reciprocal freedom of commerce. The Subjects of each of the two Contracting parties, respectively, shall have liberty freely and securely to come with their Ships and Cargoes, to all places, ports and rivers in the Territories of the other, where trade with other Nations is permitted. They may remain and reside in any part of the said Territories respectively, and |