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Hana,HI - Maui County - December 3, 1896 - Hawaii #R3 on 1896 Land Deed with Two Scarce Notary Seals

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Hana,HI - Maui County - December 3, 1896 - Hawaii #R3 on 1896 Land Deed with Two Scarce Notary Seals
A land deed written in the Hawaiian language. It is signed by C. Bolte, who was a member of the Advisory Committee that formed the Provisional Government of 1893. The first page of this document has a Hawaii #R3 One Dollar black revenue stamp, and is tied by a red January 6, 1897 Official Cancel. The second page has scarce red Hana Notary Public Seal from the Circuit Court of the Hawaiian Islands, dated December 31, 1896, and a Notary Verification Signature embossed seal dated January 6, 1897. Ex: Alan Goldberg Collection. C. Bolte, whose first name was Crister, was a German national, Hawaiian resident and member of the Committee of Safety. "The Committee of Safety, formally the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, was a 13-member council composed of American Hawaiian and European Hawaiian citizens, as well as American and European residents in Hawaii that planned and carried out the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 17, 1893.…The Committee of Safety was organized by the Hawaiian League, also known as the Annexation Club, a group of over 400 businessmen, merchants, and planters. The group's unofficial leader was Lorrin A. Thurston, the son of a missionary and publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser, a newspaper that is still published today. The goal of this group was to achieve annexation of Hawaii to the United States. The new independent Republic of Hawaii government was thwarted in this goal by the administration of President Grover Cleveland when he took office in 1893, and it was not until 1898 that the United States Congress approved a joint resolution of annexation creating the U.S. Territory of Hawaii in 1898" [Ref: www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Committee_of_Safety_(Hawaii) ].