12/13/1898
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"They are to be used to defer the expenses of consular courts, and detailed accounts of receipts and expenditures are to be rendered to the Secretary of State on the 30th of June of each year."
"Consular court fees and fines imposed and collected by consular courts are hereby declared to be official."
"The civil-service rules are hereby amended as follows."
"In the exercise of the power conferred upon me by the joint resolution of Congress, approved by the President on July 7, 1898, entitled \Joint Resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands t..."