Owner Comments:
1959 PF67
Mintage: 1,149,291
Part of My Heritage Set
Hawaii Statehood, 21 Aug 1959
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union
(Pub. L. No. 86-3, enacted 1959-03-18) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Hawaii remains the most recent state to join the United States. In 1946, Hawaii was placed on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. America transmitted annual reports on Hawaii to the United Nations Secretary General from 1946 until September 1959. By a letter of September 17, 1959, after a statehood vote in Hawaii with 94% approval, the United States notified the U.N. Secretary General that Hawaii had become a State of the Union in August 1959 and that the United States would thereafter cease to transmit information to the United Nations. The United Nations accepted this notification and removed Hawaii from the list of non-self-governing territories, recognizing the Statehood of Hawaii.
On July 7, 1898 the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States by a joint resolution of Congress. In this letter deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii protests the U.S. assertion of ownership without due process or just compensation.
RG 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the United States:
I, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, named heir apparent on the 10th of May, 1877, and proclaimed Queen of the Hawaiian Islands on the 29th day of January, 1891, do hereby, earnestly and respectfully protest against the assertion of ownership by the United States of America of the so-called Hawaiian Crown Lands amounting to about one million acres and which are my property, and I especially protest against such assertion of ownership as a taking of property without the process of law and without just or other compensation.
Therefore, supplementing my protest of June 17, 1897, I call upon the President and the National Legislature and People of the United States to do justice in this matter and the restore to me this property, the enjoyment of which is being withheld from me by your Government under what must be a misapprehension of my right and title.
Done at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this 19th day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight.
Liliuokalani
Witness: J Douglas