Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix II, Affairs in Hawaii

No. 13.
Commissions of the Hawaiian special commissioners, exhibited to the Secretary of State February 3, 1893.

Sanford B. Dole, president of the executive and advisory councils of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands, to Hon. Lorrin A. Thurston, greeting:

Know ye, that we, the executive council of the Provisional Government, reposing special trust and confidence in your wisdom, integrity, and fidelity, have constituted and appointed you, and do by these presents hereby constitute and appoint you a special commissioner to the President of the United States to negotiate with him, or another or others who may be appointed by him, certain matters detailed to you in your letter of instructions issued to you by said council, and to faithfully discharge and perform all the duties pertaining to said office under said instructions; and all persons are hereby commanded to respect this, your authority.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and the seal of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands, in Honolulu, this eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

[seal.]

Sanford B. Dole,
President.

By the President:

• J. A. King,
  Minister of the Interior,
• P. C. Jones,
  Minister of Finance,
• William O. Smith,
  Attorney-General,
  Executive Council of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands.

(The text of the commissions of Messrs. Castle, Wilder, Carter, and Marsden read the same, mutatio no minis.)