No. 277.
Mr. Merrill to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Honolulu
,
February 12, 1886.
(Received March 2.)
No. 45.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith three
copies of new regulations controlling Chinese immigration into the Hawaiian
Kingdom as officially published.
The inclosed regulations are amendatory of those made September 1, 1885, and
forwarded to the Department by me in dispatch No. 20, dated September 12,
1885.
The evident policy of the Government is to prohibit the further immigration
of Chinese into this Kingdom.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 45.]
Regulation amending the regulations for the control
of Chinese immigration into the Hawaiian Kingdom, made and published
on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1885.
REGULATIONS CONTROLLING CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
By authority: Foreign office notice.
By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by a resolution of His
Majesty, in cabinet council, passed on the 13th day of July, A. D. 1883,
I hereby make and proclaim the following regulation in regard to the
admission of Chinese passengers into this Kingdom, viz:
From and after the 1st day of April, 1886, no Chinese passenger shall be
allowed to land at any port in the Hawaiian Kingdom unless such
passenger be the bearer of a passport in due form and legally issued to
him or her under the provisions of the regulations made and published by
me on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1885, “for the control of Chinese
immigration,” and the provision in regulation number 1 of the aforesaid
regulations, which allows the landing of not more than twenty-five
Chinese passengers from any one vessel at any port in the Hawaiian
Kingdom without passports, is hereby rescinded.
Given under my hand and seal of the
Hawaiian Kingdom this
11th day of February, A. D. 1886.
[
seal.]
WALTER M.
GIBSON,
Minister of Foreign
Affairs.