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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, (search)
his condition of things the five commissioners named by the provisional government of the Hawaiian Islands reached Washington on the 3d inst., bearing authentic letters from the Hawaiian government accrediting them to the President, and conferring upon them full powers to negotiate for the union of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. On the 4th inst. the commissioners were accorded an interview with the undersigned at the request of the regularly accredited Hawaiian minister, Mr. J. Mott Smith, and submitted to me their credentials, accompanied by a statement of events leading up to and connected with the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the provisional government. At a second conference on the same day the commissioners submitted to the undersigned the proposition of the provisional government, containing the terms upon which that government desired the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. A copy of this proposition is enclosed. F
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
tlanta by Governor Bullock's proclamation, to perfect organization of State......Jan. 10, 1870 Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments ratified in legislature......February, 1870 Georgia readmitted to the Union......July 15, 1870 System of public instruction established by law......Oct. 13, 1870 Governor Bullock, accused of fraudulent negotiation of bonds endorsed by the State, resigns and leaves the State; Benjamin Conley, president of the Senate, succeeds......Oct. 30, 1871 James M. Smith elected governor by special election......Dec. 19, 1871 Macon and Brunswick Railroad seized by the State for non-payment of interest......July 2, 1873 Amendment to bonding law prohibits payment of $8,000,000 bonds endorsed by Governor Bullock and pronounced fraudulent. (Being ambiguously worded, it failed of its purpose.) Passed......February, 1874 Commissioner of agriculture authorized by law......February, 1874 State board of health organized......June 9, 1875 New const