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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]

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