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2212 rRooLAMA’r1oNs,190s. · Dwelling site: D'°m"“ “"°’ From the mast of McGregor’s Point Light Station measure by true azimuth 138° 45’ 945 ft. to a point on the hillside for a place of eginning. Thence by true azimuths and distances: 1. 157° 52’ 275 ft. thence 2. 104° 15’ 450 " " 3. 337° 52’ 560 " more or less to north side of Government road; thence 4. Along Government road to place bearing 337° 52’ and being about 300 ft. distant from place of beginning; thence 5. 157 ° 52’ 300 ft. to place of beginning. Cont' 4.2 acres more or less. IN WIZINESS VYIIEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the Cit of Washington, this 4th day of December in the year ofy our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. THBOD0m: Roosnvmxr By the President: Arvnr A. Annu Acting Secretary of State. 1>¤¤·¤¤v»»4.¤¤¤8- A PROCLAMATION. Eggiigg §$¤,S_ WHEREAS, by joint resolution "to provide for annexing the and reserved for ugm, Hawaiian Islands to the United States", approved July 7, 1898, the wigs]; *’“'*’°“‘· cession by the government of the Republic of Hawaii to the United VOL 3,, pj7m States of America, of all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies, and the transfer to the United States of the absolute fee and ownership of all public, ggvernment or crown lands, (public buildings, or edifices, ports, harrs, military ecpplpment, an all other pub ic [property of every kind and description onto the overnment o the Hawaiian Islands, was duly accepted, rgltihed, ani confirmed, and the said Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies annexed as a part of the territory of the United States, and made subject to the sovereign dominion thereof and all and singular the property and rights hereinbefore mentioned vested in the nited States of America; AND WHEREAS it was further provided in said resolution that the existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not a ply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the lliiited States shall enact special laws for their management and dis osition; AND WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the public interests Kama Point. that a certain parcel of land situated at Kahala Point, in the Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, be immediately reserved for light—house u oses; Li¤¤*»¤¤¤¤¢¤i¤*· p iliow THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, by virtue of the authority in me vested do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the following described lot or plot of land be and the same is hereby, subject to such legislative action as the Congress of the United States may take with respect thereto, reserved for light—house pufrposes, to-wit;- Light—House site. D°¤¤*P**¤¤· Beginning at a point, marked by a cross on a stone, whose azimuth and distance from the Hawaii Territorial Government Survey triangu-