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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -15 July 10, 2020 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: DWIGHT VICENTE: The Chair directed the Commission to proceed to the next order of business, Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. CHR. ADAMS: Alright, at this time we will take any statements that we may have from the public on agenda items. I understand that we have at least one testifier here in Hilo. I would remind our testifiers that they have three minutes, please to provide their name and the agenda item upon which they are speaking. Let me just ask Kona if we have any testifiers in Kona. MR. RUEDY: Good morning Chair, we do not have any testifiers here in Kona today. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Thank you. So if we can hear from our testifier in Hilo please. MR. BROWN: Good morning Chair, we have Dwight Vicente who will be speaking on Communication No. 53.2 and Communication No. 53.3. Please state your name Dwight, and then go for it. Communication Nos. 53.2 and 53.3, commenting MR. VICENTE: Good Morning, my name is Dwight Vicente. I am representing the Hawaiian Kingdom. A point of order dealing with the preamble to the County Charter. It reads "we the people of the county of Hawai`i in the State of Hawai`i with due respect for and in support of laws of the land and do adopt this charter of the county of Hawai`i, State of Hawai`i." They use the term in the State of Hawai`i. If you are speaking in the State of Hawai`i they must be limited to the Hawaiian Home Lands which is one million seven hundred fifty thousand acres only. There was illegally ceded by the banana republic in 1898 to the United States and incorporated in Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, and I should add that how it is written, it is actually Northwest Ordinance under the Articles of Confederation because they... their action is based on the Northwest Ordinance of 17... July, 1787. The Constitution was not adopted until September, 1787. And in your Article 1, Section 1-2, Geographical Limits, it says the whole island... the State Supreme Court already ruled in State vs. Jim, that the County and ... State of Hawai`i and County of Hawai`i is Hawaiian Homes. So the whole island is not Hawaiian Homes. I hear people talk about roads in limbo, well, all those lands are in limbo. If the roads are in limbo, the lands are in limbo because those lands were not ceded by the banana republic in 1898. So the lands in question is the lease lands. There is over 2.2 million acres under King Kalakaua that was leased out for 25 years that would bring them up to 1915. So they weren't leased up, ah, ceded in 1898. Then you got Article 1, Section 3- 3, Qualification. It says "the person must be a citizen of the U.S.", but if you read the last page on the Admission Act, it says "this Act does not change the Page 3