Haw. Rev. Stat. § 101
That Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands when this Act takes effect may within one year thereafter obtain certificates of residence as required by "An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States," approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an Act approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,' approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two," and until the expiration of said year shall not be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States if found therein without such certificates: Provided, however, That no Chinese laborer, whether he shall hold such certificate or not, shall be allowed to enter any State, Territory, or District of the United States from the Hawaiian Islands.
HRS § 101
A Chinese who left Hawaii with a return permit after annexation and before this act took effect and did not return before this act took effect, was not within the provisions of this § and could not thereafter return: 1 U.S.D.C. Haw. 1. A Chinese domiciled in the U.S. and coming to Hawaii as a seaman on an American vessel from an American port cannot be excluded: 1 U.S.D.C. Haw. 15. Chinese exclusion laws apply to Hawaii: 1 U.S.D.C. Haw. 49. The right of a Chinese woman to land depends on her status on arrival and is not affected by her marriage after arrival: 1 U.S.D.C. Haw. 113. Provision excluding Chinese laborers does not apply to citizen born in Hawaii after April 30, 1900, 31 F.2d 407. Chinese holding certificates in the U.S. may go to Hawaii, but quaere, whether they may return to the U.S. from Hawaii; "therein" in this § refers to Hawaii; 23 Ops. 487. The provision making it a misdemeanor to aid the landing of Chinese in the U.S. from other countries is extended so as to apply to landings from Hawaii on the mainland: 3 U.S.D.C. Haw. 87. See §4 and note thereto; also Joint Resolution of Annexation and note thereto, RLH 1955, page 13, and general immigration act and note to RLH 1955, § 57-43.