PROCLAMATIONS, 1916. 1769 any land except the areas indicated as eliminations on the diagram hereto annexe . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the City of Washington, this second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six- [sam,.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth. Woonnow WILSON By the President: Romanr LANSING, Secretary of State. Br mn Pnnsmmrr or rmi Unrrnn Srarns or Aunmca. Mmh **19*6- A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, by joint resolution " to provide for the '1;“’"*i“,;· Hawaii Hawaiian Islands to the United States,’ approved July 7, 1898, Vzwfgj, ;Q,50_ the cession by the Government of the Republic of Hawaii to the ' United States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands, and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, government or crown lands, public buildings, or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipment, and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the government of the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, ratified, and confrmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof, and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the United States o America. AND WHEREAS, it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands sha.ll not apply to such lands in the Hawa.iian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and dis osition; AND WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has provided by the Act of April 30, 1900, chapter 339, section 91, that the V°‘·3‘·°· *5** ublic property ceded and transferred to the United States by the Republic of Hawaii under the said resolution may be taken for the uses and ur oses of the United States by direction of the President; AND WzHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the lpublic interests that a certain piece and parcel of land situated at ahaina, on the Island of Maui, in the Territory and District of Hawaii, in the United States of America, be immediately reserved for hthouse purposes; NOW THEREFORE, I, WOODROW N, President of uglQ§§usg‘;§{§§;,0°§*,,_'°‘ the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby declare, proclaim and make known that the said_ piece and parcel of land situated at Lahaina, on the Island of Maui, m the Territory and District of Hawaii, be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with res act thereto, reserved for lighthouse purposes, to wit: _ _ _ Heginning at a int bearing 127° _08 36"_ true and distant D°"’"P“°‘* 19,130.3 feet from Tigrritorial Triangulation Station "Launiupoko", — thence by true azimuths and distances, as follows: 1. 56° 53’ O", 17.0 feet to a point, thence 2. 151° 33’ O", 2.5.0 feet to a point, thence 3. 236° 53’ O", 17.0 feet to a point, thence _ _ 4. 331° 33’ O", 25.0 feet to the point of beginmng. Containing 424 square feet.
