Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 621.
Mr. Merrill to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Honolulu, July 24, 1888. (Received August 15.)

No. 197.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose copy of an act passed by the Hawaiian Legislature and approved on the 4th instant, limiting the time within which “permits for Chinese to enter the Kingdom may be used.”

I have, etc.,

Geo. W. Merrill.

[Inclosure in No. 197.]

AN ACT to limit the time within which permits for Chinese to enter the Kingdom may be used.

Be it enacted by the King and the Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Sec. 1. That no permit for any Chinese to enter the Kingdom issued prior to March 1st, 1888, shall be held to extend permission to such Chinese to enter the Kingdom after the first day of July, A. D. 1889.

Sec. 2. That all permits hereafter issued for Chinese to enter the Kingdom shall state the length of time, not to exceed one year from the date of issue, during which such permits may be used, and no such permit shall be held to extend permission to such Chinese to enter the Kingdom after the expiration of the time so stated, provided that the minister of foreign affairs, in his discretion, by and with the consent of the cabinet, may in exceptional cases extend the time herein stipulated.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its approval.

Approved this fourth day of July, A. D. 1888.

Kalakaua Rex.

By the King:

L. A. Thurston,
Minister of the Interior.