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TREATY OF RECIP1p944,,,,„
BETWEEN THE UNITED. STATES OF AAVRICA
AND 'THE HAWA 14 KlNGDO3L
The United States of America and His Majesty the King
of the Hawaiian Islands, equally animated by the desire to
strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which have
heretofore 'uniformly existed between them, and to consoli-
date their COM ercial intercourse, have resolved to enter into
a Convention for CO,. mercial Reciprocity. For this purpose,
the President of the United States h.conferred full powers
on arniltou Fish; Secretary of State, and His Majesty the
JThg of the Hawaii rt islands h conferred like powers on
Hono ble Elisha H. Allen, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, Ch ncellox of t.e Kingdom, Me., bet of the Privy
Council of State, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America,
d Honorable Henry A. P. • rter, Membex of the Privy
di-a-a-aii Of -State, Itra nijesty's Special Co •, missioner to the
United States of America.
And the said Pienipotentiariee, after having exchanged
their full powera, which were found to be in clue form, have
agreed to the following articles:
ARTICLE L
For and in consideration of the rights and privileges
granted by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands in
the next succeeding article of this Convention, and as an
equivalent therefor, the United States of A erica hereby
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agree to d .a II the articles na d is the followi sche-
dule, the se being the growth and manufacture or produce
of the t':awaiian Islands, into all the ports of the United.
States free of duty.
ULE.
Arrow -root, castor oil, bananas, nuts, vegetables, dried and
uudried, preserved and unpreserved ; hides and skins, un="
dressed ; rice ; pnlu ; seeds, pl its, shrubs, or treed ; musco-
v o, brown, and all other unrefined sugar; meaning hereby
the grades of ; r heretofor n commonly imported from the
Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San
Francisco nd Portland as "Sandwich Island sugar "; syrups
of sugar -cane, meladp, and molasses; tallow.
AnTUULE
For and in consideration of the rights and privileges
granted by the United States of Arriericar in the preceding
article of this Convention, and an equivalent tI'ierefor, ?LIis
Majesty the Xing of the Hawaiian 'elands hereby agrees to
ad it all the articles nam in the following schedule, the
being the growth, manufacture, or produce of the
Ignited States of Americ, into all the ports of the Hawaiian.
Islands free of duty. =
SC}1EDULV.
Agricult ral implements; animals; beef, baco,, pork,
ham, and all fresh, smoked, or preserved meats ; boot, and
shoes ; grain, flour, meal,, and bran, bread and brew,':tu n, of
oaIl kinds ; bricks, lime, and cement ; butter, cheese, hard,.
tallow ; bullion ;s coal ; cordage, naval stores including tat,'
pitch, resin, turpe tine raw and rectified ; copper and com-
position sheathing
om-positionsheathing ; nails and bolts cotton and n anufaetnres'
of cotton, bl:ached and unbleached, and whether or not
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colored, stained, painted, or printed; eggs; fish and oysters,
and all other creatures living in the water, and the products
thereof; fruits, nuts, and vegetable; green, dried, or undried,
k„. preserved, or unpreserverl ; hardware ; hides, fare, skins and
or'- pelts, dress or undressed ; hoop iron and rivets, nails,
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dpikes, and bolts tacks brad; or sprigs' P . ice; iron and steel
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ot• and manufactures thereof; 1: . ther ; lumber and timber of all
kinds, round, hewed, sawed and unman .. ctured, in whole or
in part ; doors, eashes, and blinds; machinery of all kinds,
e,:" engines and parts thereof ; ts and hay; paper, tionery,
and books, and all manufirctares of paper or of paper and
‘..-- wood ; petroleum and all oils for lubricating or illuminating
purpoies ; plants, shrub; trees, and ode; rice; sugar,
refined or unrefined ; :,; it ; soap; shooks, staves, and head -
logo; wool and .. ufactures of wool, other than ready-made
clothing ; wagons and carts for the purposes of agriculture or
of drayage ; wood nd man r:cturea of wood, or of wood and
metal except furnitu either upholstered or carved: and
carriages; textile man. ,ctures, .. e of a combination of
wool, cotton, silk, or linen, or of any two or .. ore of them
other than when r dy- 40 , e clothing; harness and all menu-
': ctures of loather; starch; and tobacco, whether in leaf or
mann ,'' ctured.
AETIO JIL
The evidence that tlelz proposed to be 'raitted into
-the porta of the United States of America, or the p of the
waiian lauds, free of duty, under the first and second
articles of this Convention, are the growth, nufactare, or
produce of the United States of America or of the Hawaiian
Islands, r ..pectively, shall be established under such rules
and regulations and nditions for the protection of the
revenue as the two Governments may frozn time to time
rzz.pectively prescribe.
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ARTICLEW.
No export duty or charges shall be i uposed in the Hawai-
ian Island, or iu the United States, upon ny of the articl
pro • sed to be admitted into the ports of the United States
or the pill ; 'of the awaiian lands free of duty under the
first nd second articles of this Convention. It is agreed, on
the part of His Hawaiian Majeety, that, so long as this Treaty
obeli re eain in force, he will not 1,(e e or otherwise dispose of
or create any lien upon any iort, harbor, or other territory iu
his dominions„ or grant any special privilege or righ A: of use
therein, to any other power, state or government, nor make
any treaty by which any other nation shall obtain the same
privileges, relative to the %:ion of any articles free of
duty, hereby secured to the United States.
ARTICLE V.
The present Convention shall take effect as soon as it shall
have b n approv,1 and prOclaimed by His jeety the
in of the Hawaiian Islands, and shall hav been ratified
nd duly proclaimed on the part of the Government of the
United States, but net until a law tc carry it into operation
shall have been p ed by the Congress of the United S tes
of -America— Such -assent having -been --given, and -the r tifica- _
tions of the Convention having been exchanged provided
in Article VI, the Convention shall remain in force for seven
years from the date at which it may come into operation;
and flirther, until the expiration of twelve months aft r either
of the contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its
wish to terminate the same ; each of the high contracting
parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at
the end of the said term of seven years, or at any ti
thereafter.
_ARTICLE VI.
The present Convention shall be duly ratified, aud the rati-
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ticati ns exchanged at Washington City, within eighteen
months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries of the
high contracting parties have signed this present Convention,
and have affixed thereto -their respective seals.
Done in duplicate, at 'Washington, the thirtieth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
[SEA L] HAMILTON FISH.
[SEAL] EL1SHA H. ALLEN.
[RITA Li HENRY A. P. CARTJL