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ment of the private land in the Koolau Reserve was turned 

 over to the Board, the Government bound itself : 



"That all lands now held and owned by said Territory of 

 Hawaii and that it may hereafter acquire during said period 

 of this surrender, upon such acquisition, within said bound- 

 aries hereinbefore specifically set forth, except the lands within 

 said boundaries covered by Government leases Nos. 538 and 

 539, both dated February 26, 1902, made by the Commissioner 

 of Public Lands for and on behalf of the Territory of Hawaii 

 to H. P. Baldwin, shall likewise be immediately set apart as a 

 forest reserve for said purposes, as far as and as soon as it !=i 

 able so to do under the laws of said Territory. 



"That at least immediately upon the relief or release within 

 said period of this surrender of all, or any part, of the lands 

 covered by said Government Leases Nos. 538 and 539. from 

 said leases, or either of them by expiration or termination 

 or otherwise the lands within said boundaries so relieved or 

 released shall be set apart as a forest reserve for said purposes : 

 but, if possible under the laws of said Territory at any time 

 within, said period of this surrender before such relief, release 

 or releases, then as soon as thus possible, the lands within 

 said boundaries covered by said leases shall be set apart as a 

 forest reserve for said purposes. 



"That all lands set apart as hereinbefore specified as a for- 

 est reserve and all lands now held, controlled or owned by 

 said Territory of Hawaii, within said boundaries that have 

 already been set apart as a forest reserve for said purposes, 

 shall be used and maintained during said period of seventeen 

 years covered by this surrender as a forest reserve for for- 

 estry purposes according to the general purposes of the pres- 

 ent forestry laws of the Territor}^ of Hawaii, except where 

 such use and maintenance will be inconsistent with the rights 

 now existing of third persons in any of said lands, in which 

 cases upon the term.ination of any such right or rights, such 

 use and maintenance shall immediately be in the lands re- 

 lieved therefrom and shall thereafter continue throughout said 

 period of seventeen years covered by this surrender." 



Under the law as it stood before the amendment enacted 

 last month, only the land of Honomanu, 2,000 acres, in the 

 Koolau Resen-e fiand the small portions of E. Honomalele and 

 the Kawela-Kaeleku tract, 80 acres, in the Hana Reserve could 

 be set apart. The advantage of the amendment is at once 

 apparent when in these two reserves alone it permits 22,943 

 acres to be put into the permanenth^ reserved class. 



That there may be no misunderstanding of the terms of the 

 present law I may ag-ain remark that the reservation goes into 

 full efTect only on the expiration of the existing leases, all 



