Admiral Richard Thomas honored once again, 1857.

BY AUTHORITY.

By order of the King, the Chief [Kamehameha IV], it is hereby proclaimed that in order to show the aloha of his Nation at the passing of Admiral Richard Thomas, the one who returned the islands of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Flag on the 31st of July, 1843 to the King recently deceased, seventeen minute guns [pu minuke] will be fired from Puowaina [the fort at Punchbowl] at 12 o’clock on this day, and the Alii will go into mourning and all of the officers of the King’s government shall wear black crepe [hoailona kanikau] on their left arm for fifteen days.

M. KEKUANAOA, Chief Chamberlain [Haku Puuku],

Office of the Chamberlain [Oihana Puuku], 12th of Dec., 1857.

(Hae Hawaii, 12/16/1857, p. 150.)

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Ka Hae Hawaii, Buke 2, Ano Hou.—Helu 38, Aoao 150. Dekemaba 16, 1857.

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