Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 571.
Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.

Washington, April 17, 1888.

With reference to the supplementary convention concluded at Washington on the 6th of December, 1884, between the Governments of the United States and Hawaii, Her Majesty’s Government call attention to the treaty of 10th of July, 1851, between Great Britain and Hawaii, which provides for access of British ships of war to all harbors, rivers, and places within the territories of Hawaii, and to anchor there and relit.

Her Majesty’s Government have never sought any exclusive advantages under this treaty, but in view of the provisions of the above-mentioned convention respecting Pearl River Harbor, they have reminded the Hawaiian Government of this treaty, and inform the United States Government that they have done so.