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We hope this notice again will give you the history of the 67th and 86th Congress' Law's authority over the boundaries — over the boundaries within the Hawaiian Homes Commission 411 Act and not within this County. May the Great Ones Bless You for who you are. • • I would like to end by saying this. Based on Mr. Yuen's letter, I have before me, and everybody here is supposed to know, and I would think that if Mr. Tyler's still here, he does know it correctly because he uses the term that Hawaiian lands are sovereign lands. However, I have before you my lease with the Department of Hawaiian Homes. My lease that your Charter is enforcing. In line 10 of my lease, it says this to me. 'Compliance with laws that the lessee', me, 'shall comply with all the requirements of the municipal, state, and federal authorities, and observe all municipal ordinances and state and federal statutes pertaining to the said premise now in force or hereafter may be in force. Lessee will observe all setback lines effecting said premise as shown on the map if hereto attached and herein mentioned in the description of said premise, and will not erect, place or maintain any building or structure whatsoever except approved fences or walls between any street boundaries of said premise in the setback lines along such boundaries.' My purpose for this is that the compliance with laws to the municipal, which is county, state and federal is where it says I got to do. Yet and still, the County maintains they have no jurisdiction. They have no authority. But you enforce it, or I shouldn't say you, but this County enforces it. It's on my lease. So that's the problem that I have, when we come here, is the lease that allows you to enforce it, to come to us as Hawaiians and say we can do it, or is it your Charter that controls where and how the Hawaiians deal in it's relationship with all of you and your Charter? Forgive me for speaking out in the third tense as if you and I are separate. We are separate only by the difference in that I just happened to be born a Hawaiian. If there's anybody in here in real estate, know , clearly should know I can move next to you. You cannot move next to me. And that is only clear based on the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act which says Hawaiian Home lands can only be given to those guys with 50% the blood. Do I like it? I don't say I like it but that's the cards I've been dealt. That's where I was born and raised. I thought it was a benefit. I'm finding out it's a hindrance. I pay a dollar more than all of you because I've got to go pay a dollar to somebody when I could have taken the same money and gone outside and lived a wonderful life with not having to do with all of this. So I'm just trying to say the continued confusion, the lack of interest within this county as it deals with Hawaiians, that who really believe that we're just somebody who should be out there, not the host culture. Remember, we're not the host culture. We're just somebody that came after everybody else did. And if you believe that, I have some land in Kapaahu for sale. So, I'm just trying to say we come before County, we had no preconceived notions that we were going to prevail. We came here to give notice that if you proceed, because as I've heard in the County Council say the same thing — Mr. Tyler, in fact, asked the same valid question — If we're going to go on Hawaiian Home lands, do we have the conveyance paper? Do we have the deeds that allow us to go on there and dedicate these lands? Because if we don't, we can't go there. Well, the answer is they don't. Hawaiian homes won't respond; won't give it to them. Reason is they can't. They're bound by the Constitution of the State of Hawaii. So what this body that's promulgating rules and regulation laws for this County needs to understand that we're just not wolfing in the wind, but we need to make sure that you understand that we gave proper notice out there so all of 15