SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
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POIIT REGULATIONS. 
All commanders of vessels arriving at the Island of Oahu shall produce 
their certificate of registry to the pilot or port captain, also a list of their crew; 
and no seaman is to be left on the Island without the consent of the governor 
in writing, under a penalty of thirty dollars for each person so left. 
No vessel is to leave the harbour until a certificate from the harbour-master 
is granted, mentioning that the port-regulations have been complied with, for 
which he is entitled to receive one dollar. 
Seamen deserting shall be immediately taken up and kept to hard labour 
in the fort for six months. 
Commanders of vessels are to give immediate notice in case any of their 
crew desert, that they may be immediately apprehended: for each deserter 
taken up the governor to receive six dollars. 
Ships entering the harbour for the purpose of refreshing or refitting, to pay 
only the following rates:—In the outer harbour, six cents, per ton; inner har¬ 
bour, ten cents, per ton. 
Ships entering the harbour for the purpose of trading with the natives, to 
pay the following rates:—Outer harbour, fifty cents, per ton ; inner harbour, 
sixty cents, per ton. 
These regulations were signed by Karaimoku, w ho af¬ 
fixed his seal to them; and they are, perhaps, the very first 
written law of so very new a people. 
Our public business at Oahu being ended with the 
council of the chiefs, and our surveyor having accomplished 
his task, we prepared to return to Hawaii, where Lord 
Byron had determined to refit the ship, and complete our 
wood and water. The queen-mother, Kahumanu, applied 
for a passage for herself and suite, as it afterwards appeared, 
with the kindest intentions towards us, though much to the 
