Office of the Historian
No. 37.
Mr. Macfarlane to Mr. Blount.
Honolulu, July 13, 1893.

Sir: Pursuant to your request, I herewith submit a statement of monies expended by the Hawaiian Government on account of immigration, which amount has been appropriated by the legislature from time to time, as hereinbelow mentioned. The amounts so expended were in aid of bur sugar-planters, who were in need of cheap labor for their plantations.

1864–’66 $3,584.75 1880–’82 100,000.00
1866–’68 5,000.00 1882–’84 473,050.86
1868–’70 30,000.00 1884–’86 327,257.81
1870–’72 15,000.00 1886–’88 71,398.90
1872–’74 1888–’90 12,246.69
1874–’76 16,098.23 1890–’92 17,878.23
1876–’78 48,997.61
1878–’80 60,807.79 Total $1,181,320.87

The foregoing $1,181,320.87 expended for immigration was for Portuguese laborers from the Azores and for Asiatics, and the figures are collated from the departmental reports of the successive biennial periods.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

E. C. Macfarlane.

His excellency J. H. Blount,
United States Minister Plenipotentiary, etc.