Executive Order 130-D

Whereas, by the seventy-third section of an act entitled “An act to provide a government for the territory of Hawaii,” approved April 30th, 1900, it was, among other things, provided as follows: “That subject to the approval of the President, all sales, grants, leases, and other dispositions of the public domain and agreements concerning the same, and all franchises granted by the Hawaiian Government in conformity with the laws of Hawaii, between the 7th day of July, 1898, and the 28th day of September, 1899, are hereby ratified and confirmed”; and,

Whereas, it appears by the certificate of Sanford B. Dole, President of the Republic of Hawaii, which certificate bears date the 23d day of May A. D. 1900, that the Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company, organized under an act entitled, “An act to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a street railway or railways in the District of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,” was incorporated on the 30th day of August, A. D. 1898, under a charter of incorporation a copy thereof is attached to said certificate; and that said incorporating and granting of said charter of incorporation were made in conformity with the general incorporating act of the Republic of Hawaii, and that the granting of the franchise conferred thereby, and all acts done and proceedings taken in the premises were done and taken in conformity with the laws of the Republic of Hawaii;

Now, therefore, in conformity with the provision of the act aforesaid, the said franchise granted by the Hawaiian Government to the Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company, is hereby approved.

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