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in order to prevent the Government of the Pandwich Islands from exercising their right of giving

twelve months notice

of the terminations of the Treaty

and creating

creating a differential

System of duties in those Islands

in favor of the United Stater

Commerce

I am, in reply, to request

that

you

will state to the

Lords of Trade that, in View of the somewhat conflicting Engagements of the third

and

fourth Articles of that Treaty, it appears to Lord Shaney

to

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242

to be not altogether improbable that the Hawaiian Government

may dispute the claim of Her

Majesty's Government to share unconditionally in the Commercial advantages which the United Stales have purchased from the Sandwich Islands by important reciprocal concessions, involving a considerable sacrifice of Revenue

Lord Stanley there fore proposes, before sending further

instructions to Consul Wodehous.

Law

to consult the proper Officer of the Crowns upon the question whether Her Majesty & Government have

a

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