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above $200 they paid an ad valorem duty of 3 per cent. Goods were 
allowed to be transshipped or reexported on payment of a duty. 
FHonolulu.—TVhe harbor dues at this port were as follows: Six cents 
per ton on whale ships and merchant vessels entering for the purpose 
of obtaining refreshments only. For the use of the buoys, $2. For 
certificate of clearance, $1. Per foot pilotage for taking a vessel in 
or out, $1. 
Lahaina.—Regulations of port: Every captain requiring refresh- 
ments had to pay $10 for the harbor dues, for which he was allowed 
5 barrels of potatoes and the privilege of purchasing supplies for his 
ship. Every ship on arriving and making purchases had to pay $1 
for the support of two lights kept burning to mark the place where 
boats could land. - The captain was compelled to secure a certificate 
showing that the port regulations had been complied with; charge for 
this, #1. 
/[ilo.— Harbor dues for whalers: For anchorage, $6; for pilotage, $6. 
Kealakekua.—Harbor dues for whalers: For anchorage, $6; for 
pilotage, $6. 
In the general laws of 1846 no duty was charged on the transship- 
ment of whale products at the ports of the islands. 
In 1847 the following law to encourage the visits of whalers was 
passed by the Legislative Council of the islands: 
Section I. Be it resolved by the nobles and representatives of the Hawaiian Tslands in 
Legislative Council assembled, That in order to encourage the visits of whale ships of 
all nations to the ports of entry for such vessels now open by the existing laws, or 
hereafter to be declared open, they and each of them, on and after the proclamation 
hereof in the Polynesian newspaper, be exempted from all anchorage fees and ton- 
nage dues imposed by the existing tariff upon vessels exclusively engaged in the 
whale fishery; in all cases so long as said vessels shall not exceed in their trade or 
barter in foreign goods the amount of $200 ad yalorem allowed by law to be landed 
from them free of duty, provided brandy, wine, or other liquors which have an 
intoxicating effect be entirely excluded from that trade or barter, any vessel trading 
or bartering in which shall wholly forfeit the advantage of this resolution. 
Sec. Il. And be it further resolved, That from and after the proclamation hereof as 
aforesaid, the harbor or roadstead of Kealakeakua, on the island of Hawaii, shall be 
and is hereby created a port of entry and departure for whale ships in accordance 
with the existing laws applicable to such vessels at the other ports already opened to 
whale ships. 
Sec. LT. And be it further resolved, That the minister of finance be and he is 
hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in the exchequer the drafts of the col- 
lector-general of customs in favor of any duly appointed pilot employed at the port 
of Honolulu the sum of $25 for each whale ship which shall have been promptly and 
faithfully piloted by him in and out of the port of Honolulu in lieu of the $1 per foot 
allowed by law to be charged for the pilotage of whale ships. 
Sec. LV. And be it further resolved, That the minister of finance be and he is hereby 
authorized to pay to the pilots appointed for Lahaina, Hanalei, and Hilo out of any 
moneys in the exchequer such gross sums per annum as may be recommended by the 
board of finance in lieu of the charge which they are authorized to make for the 
pilotage of whale ships. 
