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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Washington this 9th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL.] twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth.

By the President:
 * Secretary of State.
 * Secretary of State.



BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATEs or AMERICA,

A PROCLAMATION

§§*,,‘,§,§,‘{;,,,_ WHEREAS, section ninety-one of the Act of Congress approved v,,1,31,p_15g_ April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, entitled "An Act to provide a government for the Territo of Hawaii" (31 Stat. 141-159), as V°l‘ 36* p' m` amended by section seven of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and ten (36 Stat. 443, 447), authorizes the transfer VOL 30,p_-M of the title to certain Ipublic pro erty ceded and transferred to the United States by the e public of) Hawaii under the joint resolution of annexation, approved gulyl seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety- gght (30 Stat. 750), and in the possession and use of the Territory of Hawaii to said Territory; and

WHEREAS, on the twenty-fifth day of March, nineteen hundred and one, Sanford B. Dole, Governor of Hawaii, acting pursuant to the authority contained in section ninety-one of the Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, issued a proclamation setting aside certain lands therein described constituting the old Honolulu Custom House Site, the buildings thereon and the furniture and fixtures therein contained, "for the uses and purposes of the United States," to wit: the transaction of the public business of the United States relating to customs, and

WHEREAS, the lands and buildings, etc., at Honolulu, Hawaii, described in said proclamation are no longer needed for the uses and purposes of the United States, and

WEHEREAS, such lands and buildings etc., are desired by the Gogeriilment of the 'léerrigsory of Havsgaiiltoqbe used foiksgeet, parking, an other ur oses tie eo e o the errito o awaii, ¤lIii2°»ir°L,°i(i¤ifiiiii¤xii

Now, therefore, I, CALVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United §‘,,‘}?Y"°° t° "‘° T"` States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by section seven of the Act of Congress approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and ten' (36 Stat. 443, 447), do hereby transfer to the Territory of Hawaii the title to the lands and buildings thereon and fixtures therein contained, referred to in the proclamation of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, above mentioned, described as follows, to wit:

nsmpuou. Beginning at a point on the southeast side of Fort Street, 126 feet from the Esplanade, running northeasterly along Fort Street 200 feet to Allen Street; southeaster along Allen Street 200 feet to Kekuanaoa Street; southwesterly along Igekuanaoa Street 200 feet; thence northwesterly 200 feet to the starting point, including an area of 40,000 square feet, and known as the Custom House Lot, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 