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On the recordDecember 27, 1903
the maintenance of light-houses and other aids to navigation in the Territory of Hawaii is necessary for the safe navigation of the waters thereof by the vessels of the Navy and of the merchant marine of the United States, and for the promotion of its commercial interests
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 513—Lighthouses in Hawaii

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