Identity area
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Hawaiian Land Office
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- Land Office
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Description area
Dates of existence
1845-1895
History
In 1845, the Hawaiian Legislature enacted and Kamehameha III approved a series of acts that established the Executive Ministry. The Second Act, Part 1 created the Department of Interior and the Hawaiian Land Office.
It's successors were the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, the Commissioner of Public Lands, and the Land Management Division and later Land Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, which continued this role into the 21st century.
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One of the mandated duties of the Hawaiian Land Office was to sell in fee simple Hawaiian government land at a price approved by the Privy Council and the reigning sovereign.
The Interior Department Hawaiian Land Office sold Government and Crown lands following the overthrow of the Constitutional Monarchy in 1893.
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- English
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Maintenance notes
2020-10-05, Joel Horowitz: Entered into AtoM. From Series 526.