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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1920. 1 787 States by the Republic of Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation, approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (30 Stat., 75Q), and in the possession and use of the Territory of V°‘·3°»P·”°· Hawaii, fig; said Territory; and WHE AS it is neces that the title to such public ro ert be transferred to the Terriigiljy of Hawaii; P P P y Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States c.,§`£" b‘§,' §{,‘§,°§{§', of America, by virtue of the jirglver vested in me b section seven of the °F§¤S‘°”°° *0 M T<*- Act of Congress approved y twenty-seventli, nineteen hundred mm and ten (36 Stat., 443, 447), do hereby transfer to the Territory of Hawaii the title to all such public pro rty so ceded by the Republic of Hawau and in the possession andpliise of said Territory for the purposes of water sewer, electric, and other public works, nal, charitable, scientific, and educational institutions, cemeteries, Espitals,_ parl;s,_ highways, wharves, landings, harbor im rovements, public bu1ldmgs,_ or other public purploses, or uired flir any such purposes: Provided, That this proc amationrghall not affect the vi§§§€§‘{E§" °‘ P"' title to any such public progrt within the said Territo taken for the uses and purposes of e United States, unless sulch property has been or shall be restored to its previous status b direction of the President of the United States in accordance with said section seiienle of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred an n. IN WITNESS WI-[EREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and. caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 17th day of Febru, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred ailld, twenty [snub] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. Woonnow WrLsoN By the President: _ Fnaxn L. Pour · Acting Secretary of State. Br mn Pnnsmnnr or mn Unrrnn Srrwms or Anmmoa. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, it is provided bly the Act of Congress of March 4, $4,"’,2`,§,‘§{‘,fj" 1909, entitled "An Act to amen and consolidate the Acts respecting V<>*·35·i>- 1077- copyriglht", that the benefits of said Act shall extend to the work o an author or proprietor who is a citizen or surlzjpct of a foreign state if nation, only upon certain conditions set fo in Section 8 of said ct, to-wit: (a) When an alien author or grotprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the rst publication of his work; or (b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreig author under this Act or by treaty; or when such_ foreign state or nation is a party to an internatio agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyrig t, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a art thereto;. P AND, WHEREAS, it is also provided by said Section that "The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined