TO ALL OUR LOYAL SUBJECTS, _Greeting_:
We hereby Proclaim that We have this day dissolved the
Legislature of Our Kingdom, by virtue of the power vested in
Us by the Constitution. The exigency contemplated by that
sacred instrument has arisen, by the disagreement of the two
Houses on the Bill of Supplies, which are necessary to carry
on Our Government; and furthermore, the House of
Representatives framed an Appropriation Bill exceeding Our
Revenues, as estimated by Our Minister of Finance, to the
extent of about $200,000, which Bill We could not sanction.
There seemed no prospect of agreement, inasmuch as the House
of Nobles had made repeated efforts at conciliation with the
House of Representatives, without success, and finally, the
House of Representatives refused to confer with the House of
Nobles respecting the said Appropriation Bill in its last
stages, and We deemed it Our duty to exercise Our
constitutional prerogative of dissolving the Legislature, and
therefore there are no Representatives of the people in the
Kingdom.
Therefore, We further proclaim Our Will and Pleasure, that Our
Loyal subjects, in all Our Islands, proceed immediately to
elect new Representatives, according to law, on the 10th day
of July next. And We convoke the Representatives who may be so
elected, to meet in Parliament in Our City of Honolulu, on
Monday, the 30th day of July, of this year, for the special
and only purpose of voting the Supplies necessary to the
administration of Our Government, without oppressing Our
faithful Subjects with unreasonable taxes.
Done in Our Palace of Honolulu, this sixteenth day of June,
1855, and the first year of Our reign.
KAMEHAMEHA.
VICTORIA K. KAMAMALU.