Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii Author:Hawaii Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT 23. An Act To Prevent Persons Of Certain Classes From Entering The Hawaiian Islands. fie it Enacted by the Executive and Advisory Councils of the Repub... more »lic of Hawaii: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to land in the Hawaiian Islands from any vessel arriving from a foreign port who is a criminal or refugee from justice, or who has been convicted of crime, or who has been under arrest for a criminal offense, and has departed or escaped from the Hawaiian Islands in order to avoid trial, or who has been deported from the Hawaiian Islands by order of the President or Marshal in time of martial law, or who has been banished by the sentence of any Court; unless such person shall have received a permission from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to so land. Section 2. Any person landing or attempting to land in tha Hawaiian Islands in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both by such fine and imprisonment. Section 3. The master or any other officer of any vessel, or any person who shall knowingly bring within the Hawaiian Islands and land or attempt to land or permit to be lauded any person described in Section 1 of this Act with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that such person iswithin the prohibition of Section 1 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such person so brought and landed, or attempted or permitted to be landed, and may be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not exeeding one year; and any such vessel shall not have clearance from any port of th...« less