my Chancellor. His recommendations,
especially those suggesting remedies for the great evils which
are so speedily destroying our race, meet my most hearty
approval, and are worthy of your serious consideration.

I trust you will be able to devise such wise and salutary
measures as shall effectually check licentiousness and
intemperance.

The doors of Justice are open to all, and so far as I am
informed, its administration in the higher courts has been
prompt, efficient and satisfactory. Of the inferior
magistrates, there has been some complaint, no doubt in many
instances with reason; but the character of district justices
has greatly improved within the past few years, and it is to
be hoped it will continue to improve. Weak as we are, and
imperfect as our Government may be, it will not be doubted, I
think, that there is no country in which there is more entire
security for life, liberty, person and property.

His Royal Highness, Prince Kamehameha, on whom has devolved
the chief military command, will exhibit to you in his report,
which is embodied in that of the Secretary at War, the plans
he has in contemplation to render efficient the important
service intrusted to his care. I have to request that you will
give this subject the grave attention it deserves. His late
Majesty urged the matter upon you frequently, but the
appropriations have hitherto been insufficient for any
permanent or efficient organization of that important
department. I indulge a strong hope that you will remedy this
deficiency, and place the Department of War upon a firm and
better footing.

Deeply imbued with a sense of the responsibility that rests
upon my Government, not only to foster, but to lead the way in
all that tends to the general good, I would invite your
earnest attention to the recommendations that will be laid
before you by my Minister of the Interior, and particularly to
that portion of his report relating to the proposed
improvements in the harbor of Honolulu. The facilities that
would be afforded in the loading and unloading of vessels,
native as well as foreign; the extra inducements that these
new accommodations would hold out to those parties who
contemplate making this port a place where ocean steamers may
seek refreshmen