No. 339.
Mr. Merrill to Mr.
Bayard
.
Legation of
the United States,
Honolulu
,
September 12, 1885.
(Received September 30.)
No. 20.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith three
copies of regulations controlling Chinese immigration into the Hawaiian
Kingdom, as officially published.
The inclosed regulations supersede those adopted March 25, 1884, and
forwarded to the Department in dispatch of Mr. Daggett, No. 135, dated March
26, 1884.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 20.]
regulations controling chinese
immigration.
Foreign Office notice.—Regulations
superseding those of March 25, 1844, for the
control of Chinese immigration into the Hawaiian Kingdom.
By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by a resolution of His
Majesty in cabinet council, passed on the 13th day of July, 1883, I
hereby make and proclaim the following regulations for the admission of
Chinese passengers entering this Kingdom:
- “No. 1. From this date no vessel coming from a foreign country
will be allowed to land more than twenty-five (25) Chinese
passengers at any port in the Hawaiian Kingdom, unless the
passengers in excess of that number are provided with passports
entitling them to enter the Kingdom.
- “No. 2. Passports entitling the holders to return to the
Kingdom will be granted at the foreign office, Honolulu, to all
persons of Chinese nationality now resident, or who [Page 476] may hereafter become
resident, on these Islands, who may desire to visit any foreign
country, provided always that such persons have been engaged in
trade or have conducted some industrial enterprise during at
least one year of their residence here. No return passports will
be given to Chinese laborers leaving the country.
- “No. 3. Passports will be granted at the foreign office,
Honolulu; also by His Majesty’s consul-general at Hong-Kong, His
Majesty’s consul at Shanghai, and His Majesty’s consul-general
at San Francisco, to any Chinese women desiring to come to the
Islands, and to Chinese children whose parents are residing in
the Kingdom, or who may not be of more than ten years of
age.
- “No. 4. Passports entitling the holder to enter the Kingdom
will also be granted at the foreign office to such persons of
Chinese nationality as the minister of foreign affairs may claim
it proper to admit to the Kingdom.
- “No. 5. The fee for any passport issued under this regulation
shall be two dollars ($2).
- “No. 6. The holders of passports issued under these
regulations must have the same indorsed with the visa of the
consular representative of this Kingdom at any port at which he
may embark on his return journey, and also at any port at which
he may stay more than twenty-four hours during such return
journey.
- “No. 7. The fee for the consul’s visa of each passport shall
be one dollar.
“All orders and instructions regulating the incoming of Chinese into this
Kingdom heretofore made and proclaimed are hereby rescinded, but nothing
herein contained shall affect the validity of any passport issued at
Hong-Kong before the proclamation there of these regulations.
“
WALTER M. GIBSON
,
“
Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
“
Foreign
Office, Honolulu
,
September 1, 1885.”
