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[Taken directly from NARA description] During the period 1898-1907 the Secretary of the Interior retained the responsibility for supervising Hawaiian Territorial affairs within his office. Territorial business was ordinarily referred to the Patents and Miscellaneous Division which, until its abolition in 1907, was part of the Secretary's Office. Only the incoming correspondence and a few duplicate copies of out-going letters relating to Hawaii are reproduced on this microfilm publication. Record copies of all outgoing letters of the Division are in a multi-volume series of letters sent, and because those relating to Hawaii are not readily segregable only a few have been reproduced in this microfilm publication. Also omitted from thi s publication is correspondence relating to the appointment of Territorial officials, which was handled by the Appointments Division of the Office of the Secretary.

The records of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinator’s Office include subject files, correspondence, legislative testimonies, reports, and speeches covering the years 1971 through 1974. The files relate to agriculture diversification, planning and policy in the post plantation era.

Organized in five subseries: Administrative, Legislative, Minutes of meetings, Outgoing letters, and Speeches and Conferences.

Records in the Administrative file relate to the establishment, internal functioning and dissolution of the Office. The Legislative files consist of staff reports, draft of legislation and testimonies related to agriculture and land use planning. Minutes of meetings contain an incomplete set of minutes to the Agriculture Coordinating Committee meetings. Outgoing letters consist of letters and memoranda from the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinator, the Research Analyst and the office secretary. Principal correspondents include the Governor, State and County agencies and members of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinating Committee. Other documents found in the Outgoing Letters include announcements and agendas of the Governor’s Agriculture Coordinating Committee meetings and reports related to the preservation of agriculture and land development in the post plantation era. Speeches and conferences contain conference materials and speeches given by the Agriculture Coordinator.

The papers in the Curtis Piehu Iuakea Manuscript Collection span the years 1875 through 1969, which includes correspondence and materials published after his death. The collection consists mostly of personal papers and documents of the post-monarchy era, and include material on the Lili'uokalani Trust and Kalanianaole lawsuit against the estate. The collection also includes commissions and awards received by Iaukea during his career from 1875-1917.

Name indexes to the Biographical Sketches and Rolls. Indexes are fragile and have been photocopied.

Only a limited number of census returns have survived from the nineteenth century. They are available only for the years 1866, 1878, 1890, and 1896, and no one census is wholly complete.

The Archives collection also includes a few examples of tax office records dating from 1840. These records include name lists and statistical reports of the population listed by taxable categories.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Subject files consist of correspondence, informational copies of meeting minutes, copies of reports, copies of legislation, newspaper clippings, reprints and pamphlets. Relates to agriculture diversification, agriculture task forces, preservation of agriculture lands and land use planning.