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 GGG PROCLAMATIONS. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this iirst day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and first. ‘ U. s. GRANT. By the President: HAMr1,roN Frsn, Secretary of State. _ N0. 7. . Sept. 9, 1876. BY THE PRESIDENT on THE UNITED STATES OF AMEEIOA. ¤*··¤*¤, r- 695- A PROOLAMATION. Preamble. Wl1ereas by Article V of a Convention concluded at Washington upon the 30th day of January, 1875, between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, it was provided as follows, viz: 4;,,,,,-,,,,,,0,, Of *• The present Convention shall take effect as soon as it shall have Jan¤¤¤m· 140, @75, ** been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of the Hai"{§**1U**"'**"*“* ** waiian Islands, and shall have been ratified and duly proclaimed on S ‘“" S` ** the part oi' the Government of the United States, but not until a law " to carry it into operation shall have been passed by the Congress of - A,,a,,,,,_g00,l;e1_ " vided in Article VI, the Convention shall remain in force for seven _ “ years from the date at which it may come into operation; and further, ` *‘ until the expiration of twelve months after either of the high contract- “ ing 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 time thereafter." And whereas such Convention has been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands and has been ratified and duly proclaimed on the part of the United States, and a law to carry the sa-me into operation has been passed by the Congress of the United States, and the ratiiications of the Convention have been exzhanged as provided in Article VI thereof: Protocol of een- And whereas the Acting Secretary of State of the United States and i¤~¤‘¢¤¤=<> Of _S<>1>¤¤¤¤· His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at b°" 9¤ 1*""’· Washington have recorded in a protocol a conference held by them at Washington, on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in the following language : “ Whereas it is provided by Article V of the Convention between the " United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian " Islands concerning commercial reciprocity, signed at Washington on " the 30th day of January, 1875, as follows: ·¢ * ARTICLE V-. The present Convention shall take effect as soon as it “ * shall have been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King “ ‘of the Hawaiian Islands, and shall have been ratified and duly pro- “ ‘ until the law to carry it into operation shall have been passed by the “ ‘been given, and the ratifications of the Convention having been Wexehanged as provided in Article VI, the Convention shall remain
 * ‘ the United States of America. Such assent having been given and
 * ‘ the ratitications of the Convention having been exchanged as pro-
 * * claimed on the part of the Government of the United States, but not
 * ‘ Congress of the United States of America. Such assent having