rights.

ing to the fishing rights in the Territory of Hawaii, and report to the President touching the same, and to recommend such changes in said laws as he shall see fit.

REPEAL OF LAWS CONFERRING EXCLUSIVE FISHING

RIGHTS.

SEC. 95. That all laws of the Republic of Hawaii which Repeal of laws conferring ex-confer exclusive fishing rights upon any person or persons clusive fishing are hereby repealed, and all fisheries in the sea waters of the Territory of Hawaii not included in any fish pond or artificial inclosure shall be free to all citizens of the United States, subject, however, to vested rights; but no such vested right shall be valid after three years from the taking effect of this Act unless established as hereinafter provided.

Proceedings for opening fisheries to citizens.

Quarantine.

Stations,regulations, etc.

PROCEEDINGS FOR OPENING FISHERIES TO CITIZENS.

SEC. 96. That any person who claims a private right to any such fishery shall, within two years after the taking effect of this Act, file his petition in a circuit court of the Territory of Hawaii, setting forth his claim to such fishing right, service of which petition shall be made upon the attorney-general, who shall conduct the case for the Territory, and such case shall be conducted as an ordinary action at law.

That if such fishing right be established, the attorneygeneral of the Territory of Hawaii may proceed, in such manner as may be provided by law for the condemnation of property for public use, to condemn such private right of fishing to the use of the citizens of the United States upon making just compensation, which compensation, when lawfully ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury of the Territory of Hawaii not otherwise appropriated.

QUARANTINE.

SEC. 97. That quarantine stations shall be established at such places in the Territory of Hawaii as the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States shall direct, and the quarantine regulations for said islands relating to the importation of diseases from other countries shall be under the control of Honolulu sta- the Government of the United States. The quarantine station and grounds at the harbor of Honolulu, together with all the public property belonging to that service, shall be transferred to the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, and said quarantine grounds shall continue to be so used and employed until the station is changed to other grounds which may be selected by order of the Secretary of the Treasury.

tion.

The health laws of the government of Hawaii relating to the harbor of Honolulu and other harbors and inlets from the sea and to the internal control of the health of the islands shall remain in the jurisdiction of the govern

ment of the Territory of Hawaii, subject to the quarantine laws and regulations of the United States.

American register for certain

SEC. 98. That all vessels carrying Hawaiian registers on the twelfth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-vessels. eight, and which were owned bona fide by citizens of the United States, or the citizens of Hawaii, together with the following-named vessels claiming Hawaiian register, Star of France, Euterpe, Star of Russia, Falls of Clyde, and Wilscott, shall be entitled to be registered as American vessels, with the benefits and privileges appertaining thereto, and the coasting trade between the islands aforesaid and any other portion of the United States, shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great coasting districts.

free

from

SEC. 99. That the portion of the public domain hereto-, Crown land fore known as Crown land is hereby declared to have trusts, etc. been, on the twelfth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and prior thereto, the property of the Hawaiian government, and to be free and clear from any trust of or concerning the same, and from all claim of any nature whatsoever, upon the rents, issues, and profits thereof. It shall be subject to alienation and other uses as may be provided by law.

tion.

SEC. 100. That for the purposes of naturalization under Naturalizathe laws of the United States residence in the Hawaiian Islands prior to the taking effect of this Act shall be deemed equivalent to residence in the United States and in the Territory of Hawaii, and the requirement of a previous declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce former allegiance shall not apply to persons who have resided in said islands at least five years prior to the taking effect of this Act; but all other provisions of the laws of the United States relating to naturalization shall, so far as applicable, apply to persons in the said islands.

residence for

SEC. 101. That Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands when Certificates of this Act takes effect may within one year thereafter ob- Chinese. tain certificates of residence as required by "An Act to Vol. 27, p. 25. prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States," approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, as amended by an Act approved November third, Vol. 28, p. 7. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two," and until the expiration of said year shall not be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States if found therein without such certificates: Provided, however, That no Chinese laborer, whether he shall hold such certificate or not, shall be allowed to enter any State, Territory, or District of the United States from the Hawaiian Islands.

SEC. 102. That the laws of Hawaii relating to the establishment and conduct of any postal savings bank or institution are hereby abolished. And the Secretary of the

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Hawaiian Treasury, in the execution of the agreement of the United States as expressed in an Act entitled "Joint Resolution depositors to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the thorized, etc. United States," approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall pay the amounts on deposit in the Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank to the persons entitled thereto, according to their respective rights, and he shall make all needful orders, rules, and regulations for paying such persons and for notifying such persons to present their demands for payment. So much money as is necessary to pay said demands is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available on and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred, when such payments shall begin, and none of said demands shall bear interest after said date, and no deposit shall be made in said bank after said date. Said demands of such persons shall be certified to by the chief executive of Hawaii as being genuine and due to the persons presenting the same, and his certificate shall be sealed with the official seal of the Territory, and countersigned by its secretary, and shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall draw his warrant for the amount due upon the Treasurer of the United States, and when the same are so paid no further liabilities shall exist in respect of the same against the governments of the United States or of Hawaii.

-surplus, etc., SEC. 103. That any money of the Hawaiian Postal Savto be paid into United States ings Bank that shall remain unpaid to the persons entitled Treasury. thereto on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and

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one, and any assets of said bank shall be turned over by the government of Hawaii to the Treasurer of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause an account to be stated, as of said date, between such government of Hawaii and the United States in respect to said Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank.

SEC. 104. This Act shall take effect forty-five days from and after the date of the approval thereof, excepting only as to section fifty-two, relating to appropriations, which shall take effect upon such approval.

Approved, April 30, 1900.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Act of March 8, 1902.

CHAP. 140.-An act temporarily to provide revenue for the March 8, 1902. Philippine Islands, and for other purposes. [Public No. 28.]

lands.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, Philippine Isof the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tariff laws of That the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to revise mission conPhilippine Comand amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Archipelago," firmed. enacted by the United States Philippine Commission on the seventeenth day of September, nineteen hundred and one, shall be and remain in full force and effect, and there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the Philippine Archipelago from the United States the rates of duty which are required by the said Act to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries into said archipelago.

toms duties.

to

Reduction on

taxes levied on

SEC. 2. That on and after the passage of this Act there Articles from Philippines shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles com- pay regular cusing into the United States from the Philippine Archipelago the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries: Provided, That upon all articles the Provisos. growth and product of the Philippine Archipelago com- Philippine proding into the United States from the Philippine Archi- ucts. pelago there shall be levied, collected, and paid only seventy-five per centum of the rates of duty aforesaid: And provided further, That the rates of duty which are Duty to be less required hereby to be levied, collected, and paid upon exports. products of the Philippine Archipelago coming into the United States shall be less any duty or taxes levied, collected, and paid thereon upon the shipment thereof from the Philippine Archipelago, as provided by the Act of the United States Philippine Commission referred to in section one of this Act, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, but all arti- Articles on cles, the growth and product of the Philippine Islands, free list exempt from Philippine admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty export duties. under the provisions of this Act and coming directly from said islands to the United States for use and consumption therein, shall be hereafter exempt from any export duties imposed in the Philippine Islands.

on foreign ves

SEC. 3. That on and after the passage of this Act the Tonnage tax same tonnage taxes shall be levied, collected, and paid sels. upon all foreign vessels coming into the United States from the Philippine Archipelago which are required by

law to be levied, collected, and paid upon vessels coming Provisos. into the United States from foreign countries: Provided, Temporary permit to for- however, That until July first, nineteen hundred and four, eign vessels. the provisions of law restricting to vessels of the United States the transportation of passengers and merchandise directly or indirectly from one port of the United States to another port of the United States shall not be applicable to foreign vessels engaging in trade between the Philippine Archipelago and the United States, or between ports in the Philippine Archipelago: And provided further, That the License to har- Philippine Commission shall be authorized and empow

bor vessels.

Duties, etc., to constitute a sep

benefit of Phil

ered to issue licenses to engage in lighterage or other exclusively harbor business to vessels or other craft actually engaged in such business at the date of the passage of this Act, and to vessels or other craft built in the Philippine Islands or in the United States and owned by citizens of the United States or by inhabitants of the Philippine Islands.

SEC. 4. That the duties and taxes collected in the Philarate fund in ippine Archipelago in pursuance of this Act, and all Treasury for duties and taxes collected in the United States upon artiippine Islands. cles coming from the Philippine Archipelago and upon foreign vessels coming therefrom, shall not be covered into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, but shall be held as a separate fund and paid into the treasury of the Philippine Islands, to be used and expended for the government and benefit of said islands.

Duties to be

based on weight

SEC. 5. That when duties prescribed by this Act are at time of entry. based upon the weight of merchandise deposited in any public or private bonded warehouse, said duties shall be levied and collected upon the weight of such merchandise at the time of its entry.

Articles exempt from intax, etc.

SEC. 6. That all articles manufactured in bonded manuternal-revenue facturing warehouses in whole or in part of imported materials, or of materials subject to internal-revenue tax and intended for shipment from the United States to the Philippine Islands, shall, when so shipped, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, be exempt from internal-revenue tax, and shall not be charged with duty except the duty levied under this Act upon imports into the Philippine Islands.

Drawbacks,

etc.

That all articles subject under the laws of the United States to internal-revenue tax, or on which the internalrevenue tax has been paid, and which may under existing laws and regulations be exported to a foreign country without the payment of such tax, or with benefit of drawback, as the case may be, may also be shipped to the Philippine Islands with like privilege, under such regulations and the filing of such bonds, bills of lading, and other security as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, preTaxes re- scribe. And all taxes paid upon such articles shipped to the Philippine Islands since November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, under the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury of that date, shall be refunded to the parties who have paid the same, under such rules and regulations

funded.