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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 will ask Corporation Counsel if the eminent domain language could be used to condemn or take 2% lands that were acquired some time ago and mess that up, and it also sounds like if there is eminent domain, you are not going to get matching funds so other people... other agencies won't participate, so perhaps Mr. Roehrig could explain a bit more the purpose of his proposal, but as is I don't think it is a wise way to go. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Mr. Vicente. DWIGHT VICENTE: Communication No. 36, Communication No. 42, and Communication No. 44, commenting. MR. VICENTE: Good morning. My name is Dwight Vicente. I am representing the Hawaiian Kingdom. Communication No. 36, 42, and 44. I will start with 36. I will tell you a little history about the... going back to 1875. There was a Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 that never was. King Kalakaua nor did the U.S. President sign the treaty. In 1898 the U.S. citizens here under the bogus treaty gave away to the United States without authority, one million seven hundred fifty thousand acres of Crown and government lands. In 1900 that lands became known as the territory of Hawai`i. In 1920 those Crown and government lands were rebranded as Hawaiian Home Lands. In 1959 the territory agreed by compact to administer the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act in the name of the state of Hawai`i over the one million seven hundred fifty thousand acres. The rest of the Kingdom was not given away. Those leases were under King Kalakaua bumped up from three to five years to 25 years so those lands are still under the jurisdiction of the Hawaiian Kingdom. So the County is there to facilitate the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. Their taxing power is limited to lands that rebranded as Hawaiian Home Lands not outside, and there is no land speculation on Hawaiian Home Lands because those are only leased lands. Communication No. 42, the Windward and Leeward Planning Commission should be limited to the Hawaiian Home Lands only, not beyond because the County has no jurisdiction over Crown and government lands that still fall under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Communication No. 44, these lands that you are trying to purchase are actually Crown and government lands that still belong to the Hawaiian Kingdom because the Hawaiian Home Lands you cannot purchase and there is no need to buy these lands that is under the jurisdiction of the Hawaiian Kingdom because right now they are not leased out to anyone and therefore anyone claiming to own these lands is fraudulent. With that I will end with the reservation of the rights of this Kingdom under the Queen's Protest of January 17, 1893 against U.S. Minister Stevens that has yet to make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2. Original but limited jurisdiction. The jurisdiction is limited to the illegal acts of U.S. Page 6