Papers and Documents Relating to the Hawaiian Islands

Papers and Documents Relating to the Hawaiian Islands PDF

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781528267311

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Excerpt from Papers and Documents Relating to the Hawaiian Islands: Comprised in Senate Executive Documents No; 45, No; 57, No; 76, and No; 77, Fifty-Second Congress, Second Session The cabinet ministers and members of the privy council placed their offices at the disposal of the new sovereign yesterday, but he desired them to remain for the present in the discharge of their several func tions. The King' s confidential and most influential adviser is the Hon. William L. Lee, chief justice of the supreme court, a thorough American and a man of undoubted integrity. On the 2d instant he resigned his office on account of ill health, but his resignation was not then accepted, and the present King absolutely refuses to allow him to quit his position, promising to have such an arrangement made as will relieve him of his most burdensome duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.