CIRCULAR OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE, RELATING TO DEPRECIATED CURRENCY IN THE UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HONOLULU, 18th April, 1863. SIR; I have the honor to enclose to you a notice to all Merchants exporting Goods and Merchandise of all kinds, liable to duty, to this Kingdom, that the King's Government are ready to deduct from the invoice value of said Goods and Merchandise, such a value as may equal, precisely, the increase in their prime cost arising from the depreciation in the currency with which they have been bought at the date of their invoice, as presented to the Custom House at the port of shipment: provided, that every such invoice be accompanied with a certificate by you, under your Seal and Signature, stating that the said Goods and Merchandise were bought and paid for in a depreciated currency, and further stating the precise per-centage of depreciation or of increase of value of such Goods and Merchandise as compared with the prices, in the current gold and silver coins of the United States; but that without such certificate, no deduction whatever will be allowed. You are to cause this notice to be inserted, once every week, in the newspaper of largest circulation among merchants in the city where you reside, and in all others within the compass of your Consulate till further orders. 60 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONSULS. NOTICE TO ALL EXPORTERS OF GOODS AND MERCHANDISE. By order of the Government of His Majesty, the King of the Hawaiian Islands, the undersigned hereby notifies all exporters of Goods and Merchandise to that Kingdom, that the Import duty thereon will be calculated and levied on their Invoice valve, as manifested to the Custom House at the port of shipment, less the precise amount of the increase in the invoice value of said Goods and Merchandise arising from the depreciation of the currency at the date of said invoice, but that no reduction of duties whatever will be allowed, unless the invoices, as presented for clearance at the Custom House, be accompanied with a certifiate under the seal and signature of the uudersigned, stating the percentage of the increase in the value of said invoices at the time of their date arising from the depreciation in the currency, as aforesaid. The undersigned, on proof that the invoices are calculated in depreciated currency, and of the per-centage of that increase arising from that depreciation, is authorized to issue çertificates of the same, on presentation of the invoices, to all applicants, they paying the usual fee of five dollars for each certificate. Consul. HIS HAWAIIAN MAJESTY'S CONSULATE, CONSULAR FEES. For shipping Sailors, for each... For discharging Sailors, for each... For signature of Ship's Manifest when required.. For certificate of Invoice of Goods to be landed in Hawaiian ports-On Invoices of less than $500 - On Invoices of $500 and upwards. $1.00 1 00 2.00 2 00 1.00 2.00 For certificate of Gold Value, U. S.- 5 00 For certificate of the landing of Goods exported from Ha 50 For administering an Oath when required__. For Seal of Office and signature to any other document For every Passport to parties bound for Hawaiian ports. 2 00 For Visa of every Passport-- 50 1 per cent. per cent. 1 per cent. For valuations of Ships, Goods, &c.... For sale of Ships, Goods, &c., when employed to do so 2 For attending such sales, in cases where there has been no charge for valuation.... For attendance at place of shipwreck, or where the wrecked ship and property may be, over and above traveling expenses. 5 For attendance on opening a Will............ For extending a Will, where the value exceeds $100 per cent. $5 00 2.00 1 00 For administering to estate of Hawaiian subjects, when required, or when dying intestate. 21 per cent. On amount of disbursements on account of the Hawai ian Government, when not in funds, besides in terest thereon at the rate current in the place 21⁄2 per cent. On receiving and paying away money by order of the 21 per cent. EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA. (APPROVED DECEMBER 31, 1864.) SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of all masters of Hawaiian vessels to observe and enforce, on board the vessels under their command, the following rules and regulations : REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA. PRELIMINARY. ARTICLE 1. In the following rules, every steamship which is under sail, and not under steam, is to be considered a sailing ship; and every steamship which is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a ship under steam. RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS. ARTICLE 2. The lights mentioned in the following articles, and no others, shall be carried in all weathers between sunset and sunrise. ARTICLE 3. Sea-going steamships, when under way, shall carry, at the foremast head, a bright white light, so fixed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the ship, viz: from right ahead to two points abaft |