Treaty of Reciprocity between the United States of America and the Hawaiian Kingdom, 30 January 1875

Treaty held under archive reference PKOA-DR-1875-008. Publication in this archive confirms that the Kingdom of Atooi holds or has reviewed the displayed record. Evidence standards.

Plain-language title

The 1875 trade treaty between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States

Permanent archive ID

PKOA-DR-1875-008

Record type

Treaty

Date issued or date of the historical event

30 January 1875

Date precision

Exact day recorded in the source

Place

Signed at Washington, D.C., United States

Issuing party

Library of Congress, Office of Business Enterprises, Duplication Services Section (certifying office for this reproduction)

Recipient or counterparty

United States of America (treaty counterparty)

Named parties

United States of America · Hawaiian Kingdom

Signatories and titles, as written

As written on the face of the reproduction: Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States; Elisha H. Allen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands; Henry A. P. Carter, Special Commissioner. Ratification and attestation names appear in the closing pages of the reproduction.

Number of pages

6

Original filename

TREATY_OF_RECIPROCITY-06-11-2026-11:17.pdf (preservation copy); earlier lower-resolution scan "Treaty Between Hawaiian Kingdom and US.pdf" retained in version history; "__Treaty Between Hawaiian Kingdom and US_copy.docx" retained as a transcription, not a separate instrument

File type

PDF (certified reproduction); a Word-processed transcription of the same instrument is retained privately as a supporting exhibit

Access status

Public

Plain-language summary

A six-page reproduction. The first leaf is a Library of Congress certificate from the Office of Business Enterprises, Duplication Services Section, stating that the collections of the Library contain a publication entitled "Treaty of Reciprocity between the United States of America and the Hawaiian Kingdom", dated 30 January 1875, and that the attached photocopies, pages 1 through 5, are a true representation from that work; the certificate is dated 7 March 2012 and refers to the seal of the Library of Congress affixed to it, signed by the Duplication Services Section Head (name not legible in the scan). The treaty text follows: the preamble names plenipotentiaries Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, for the United States, and the Honorable Elisha H. Allen, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Chancellor of the Kingdom, and the Honorable Henry A. P. Carter, for the King of the Hawaiian Islands. Articles set out schedules of goods admitted free of duty, evidence of origin, a bar on export duties and on leasing or disposing of any port, harbour or territory or granting like privileges to another power, entry into force with a seven-year term, and ratification and exchange at Washington within eighteen months. The attestation reads: Done in duplicate, at Washington, the thirtieth day of January, 1875, with sealed signatures of HAMILTON FISH, ELISHA H. ALLEN and HENRY A. P. CARTER.

Provenance or source

Uploaded to the Kingdom's private document intake on 8 September 2026 in three forms: "Treaty Between Hawaiian Kingdom and US.pdf", "__Treaty Between Hawaiian Kingdom and US_copy.docx" and "TREATY_OF_RECIPROCITY-06-11-2026-11:17.pdf". Comparison shows all three carry the same Library of Congress certificate of 7 March 2012 and the same five pages of treaty text; they are the same document in different files and formats, so a single record is created.

Custodian

Office of the Archive, Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi

Custodial history

Reproduction certified by the Library of Congress on 7 March 2012. How the Kingdom obtained the copy is not yet documented in the public archive.

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