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Includes a brief history of the Customs Office, imports and exports, shipping records, a list of Hawaiian Registered Vessels (1870-1872), lists of pilots and officers of the Customs House, and personnel data from 1841-1893.

Both sub-series contain information about crew members, monthly salaries, length of voyage, date of departure, and name of supervisor. Also includes records of Guano Island laborers, i.e. workers who harvested waste material of seabirds for use as fertilizer.

The volume labelled "Shipped: 1849" was used by the Governor of Oahu for several other purposes: It contains records of the road overseer (1852); records of election inspectors (1853); and marriage licenses issued (1852-1853). Mostly in Hawaiian.

Records of cargo-carrying vessels in Honolulu Harbor; includes ship name, tonnage, wharfage, date of arrival and departure, where from, destination, and type of cargo. Variously called "Port of Honolulu - Arrivals and Departures" and "Entries and Clearances."

Also included are the Journal of William Paty, Harbormaster and first Collector General, from Jan. 1842-Jan. 1845 (in the 1842-1849 volume); and the correspondence of Capt. A. Fuller, agent for the Bureau Veritas, from 1882-1884 (in the 1881-1894 volume). There are no records for 1865-1867.

Comprised of books of Bills of Sale and notarized Transfers of Registry of ships. Includes conditions of sale, previous and new owners, draft, tonnage and former flag. First volume contains Inwards Manifests from April 1861 to December 1861, listing type of cargo, its sender and recipient.

Consists of one Journal of Bookkeeping Records, specifically a monthly account of fees collected and monies paid out. Also includes names of whaling vessels and value of food and supplies shipped.

Letterbooks contain outgoing letters from the Collector at Mahukona; mostare to the Deputy Collector General of Honolulu. The Bookkeeping Records, which consist of Cash Books and Stamp Accounts, also provide a one-page passenger list, a summary of imports and exports, and Entries and Clearances at Mahukona and Honoipu, Hawaii.

Letterbooks contain outgoing letters from the Collector at Lahaina.
"Entries and Clearances" gives name of vessel (mostly whalers), captain, dates of arrival and departure, where from and where bound, and amount of cargo (whales taken). Also includes quarterly Bookkeeping Accounts from 1851-1882, and Native and Foreign Seamen's Records.

"Entries and Clearances" gives name of vessel, date sailed, where from and destination, type of rig, captain and detailed cargo inventory. Bookkeeping Records are sub-divided into Cash Books, Journals and Ledgers.

The records date from 1843-1900, some are undated. Arranged in 2 sub-series: 1) Passenger Manifests, and 2) Bound Volumes.

Contains lists of passengers arriving and departing from foreign ports, nationality, destination, and occasionally age and occupation. Most records from the Port of Honolulu, but some Kahului, Maui arrivals are interspersed among them; 1885-1887 contain Kahului records only.

The bound volumes also include lists of Discharged Seamen (1895-1898) and daily Customs Officers Reports (1893-1894). The Report of Customs Officers lists names of vessels, date of arrival, type of cargo, guards on duty at specific piers, etc.

Catalogs wharfage, towage and pilotage fees. Some volumes contain more than one type of account. The Schooner records distinguish between interisland schooners and international vessels. Also list charges to ships for fresh water.