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Page 258 - practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of the Kingdom. ARTICLE 3. All men may freely speak, write, and publish their sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no law shall be enacted to restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. ARTICLE
Page 600 - 80. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed, in the legislative assembly, and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the : members thereof, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on its journal, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the next
Page 262 - or returning: or who shall rescue any person arrested by order of the legislature. ARTICLE 52. The legislature may punish its own members for disorderly behavior. ARTICLE 53. The legislature shall keep ajournai of its proceedings; and the yeas and nays of the members, on any question, shall, at the
Page 650 - The incorporation of the Hawaiian Islands into the American Union, and their admission, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of a sovereign State, the same as any other State of the Union.
Page 92 - and may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them, and dispose of the same at will, paying to the profit of the respective Governments such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in like cases. And, in case of the absence of the heir and representative,
Page 427 - opportunities for power and spoliation will be gone if annexation becomes a fact. The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. If annexation does not take place promptly, all is held in doubt and suspense for six or ten months,
Page 93 - nation, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively. ARTICLE IX. The citizens and subjects of each of the two contracting parties shall be free in the States of the other to manage their own aflairs themselves, or to commit
Page 90 - found in good and due form, have concluded and signed the following articles. ARTICLE I. There shall be perpetual peace and amity between the United States and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, his heirs and his successors. ARTICLE II. There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation between the United
Page 490 - sovereign, and the Provisional Government was created "to exist until ' terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon." A careful consideration of the facts will, I think, convince you that the treaty which was withdrawn from the Senate for further consideration should not be
Page 209 - The undersigned, Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate thereto, should such a course be in the judgment of the President for the public interest, a treaty, signed at Washington on the