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HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 205 7 faith submits to the authority of the Government of the United 8 States and the local Government of the Islands. 9 And the Government of the United States further agrees to 10 pay to the Princess Kaiulani within one year from the date of the 11 exchange of the ratifications of this treaty the gross sum of one 12 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, provided she in good faith 13 submits to the authority of the Government of the United States 14 and the local Government of the Islands. 1 ARTICLE VII. 2 The present Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United 3 States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the 4 one part, and by the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian 5 Islands on the other, and the ratifications thereof shall be ex- 6 changed at Honolulu as soon as possible. Such exchange shall be 7 made on the part of the United States by the Commissioner here- 8 inbefore provided for, and it shall operate as a complete and final 9 conveyance to the United States of all the rights of sovereignty 10 and property herein ceded to them. Within one month after such 11 exchange of ratifications the Provisional Government shall furnish 12 said Commissioner with a full and complete schedule of all the 13 public property herein ceded and transferred. 14 In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed 15 the above articles and have hereunto affixed their seals. 16 Done in duplicate at the city of Washington this fourteenth day 17 of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. 18 JOHN W. FOSTER, [SEAL] 19 LORRIN A. THURSTON, [SEAL] 20 WILLIAM E. CASTLE, [SEAL] 21 WILLIAM C. WILDER, [SEAL] 22 CHARLES L. CARTER, [SEAL] 23 JOSEPH MARSDEN. [SEAL]