Haw. Rev. Stat. § 98
That all vessels carrying Hawaiian registers on the twelfth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and which were owned bona fide by citizens of the United States, or the citizens of Hawaii, together with the following-named vessels claiming Hawaiian register, Star of France, Euterpe, Star of Russia, Falls of Clyde, and Willscott, shall be entitled to be registered as American vessels, with the benefits and privileges appertaining thereto, and the coasting trade between the islands aforesaid and any other portion of the United States, shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to such trade between any two great coasting districts.
See also §88 of this act. On authority to register Hawaiian vessels after annexation and before this act, see note to Joint Resolution of Annexation, RLH 1955, page 13. For special act for register of barkentine "Hawaii," see 32 Stat 35. On issuance of register to American citizen of Chinese birth, see note to §4. Referred to in 182 U.S. 397 and 105 Fed. 78, to show that "coasting trade" is not limited to interior waters or contiguous coast. Referred to in 23 Ops. 416; 24 Ops. 7.
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