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Page 1 - The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, equally animated by the desire to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which have heretofore uniformly existed between them, and to consolidate their commercial intercourse, have resolved to enter into a convention for commercial reciprocity.
Page 1 - Relations, and, together with the message, ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate To the Senate of the United States...
Page 2 - Said lands shall be surveyed and sold, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, on the most advantageous terms for cash, as public lands are surveyed and sold under existing laws, but no preemption claim or homestead settlement shall be recognized...
Page 18 - Indians, the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this act, and acquired in the donation to the road named in the act...
Page 2 - ... heretofore granted by Congress to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of said water communication, which amount shall be deducted from the actual value thereof as found hy said arbitrators.
Page 34 - Pass to secure and maintain a channel 26 feet in depth through the pass, and through the jetties at the mouth of the pass a channel " twenty-six feet in depth, not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of thirty feet without regard to width.
Page 2 - Indian civilization fund" was originated by "an act making provision for the civilization of the Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements, approved March 3, 1819 (3 Stats., p.
Page 18 - ... to the extent of two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops, and depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turntables, and water stations.
Page 2 - For and in consideration of the rights and privileges granted by the United States of America in the preceding article of this convention, and as an equivalent therefor, His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands hereby agrees to admit all the articles named in the following schedule, the same being the growth...
Page 67 - ... or counselor to the United States, or to any branch or Department of the Government thereof, except in cases specially authorized by law, and then only on the certificate of the...