e necessary business that may come
before you, that you will combine care with dispatch, and I
will join with you in supplicating the Ruler of all nations
for that wisdom which will best direct your efforts.

MAY 30, 1860.

_His Majesty's Reply to Rev. W. P. Alexander, on behalf of the "Hawaiian
Evangelical Association."_

I assure you, gentlemen, that no expression of good will
towards myself or my people is necessary on your part; that is
well known. Nor need I say that the same confidence and
friendly regard which was ever cherished towards you by my
predecessors is entertained by myself. The feeling with me is
not only personal but hereditary.

In regard to those portions of my speech to the Legislature to
which you are pleased to refer, I shall certainly rely upon
the co-operation of the clergy in carrying into effect any
measures that may be adopted for the suppression of those
great evils referred to, and I am confident that I shall have
it not only in this but in every other good work.

Gentlemen and ladies, I am always happy to see you, while on
these yearly visits to the metropolis.

AUGUST 14, 1860.

_His Majesty's Special Message to the House of Nobles and
Representatives, delivered by the Royal Commissioners._

KAMEHAMEHA IV., by the Grace of God King of the Hawaiian
Islands:

_To His Excellency_ M. KEKUANAOA, _Our Governor of Oahu, and
the Honorable_ ELISHA H. ALLEN, Our Chancellor:

GREETING:--We hereby commission you in Our place and stead, to
deliver to the Nobles and Representatives, Our Message,
touching certain alterations proposed to be made in the
Constitution of Our Kingdom: And for so doing this shall be
your sufficient warrant.
Given at Our Palace in Honolulu, this Fourteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1860, and in the sixth year of
Our reign.
KAMEHAMEHA.

KAAHUMANU.

At the request of the President, Mr. R. Armstrong read the Royal Message
in Hawaiian, after which the Chancellor read the same in English. The
following is the English version:

NOBLES AND REPRESENTATIVES:--I called the attention of the
last Legislature to the amendments of