HI SR47

Requests recognition of July 31 annually as "La Hoihoi Ea" (Restoration Day), commemorating the date independence was restored to the Hawaiian Kingdom on July 31, 1843.

Marks the end of a five-month unauthorized military occupation by British Royal Navy Captain Lord George Paulet that had forcefully seized Hawaiian sovereignty.

References Queen Victoria's dispatch of Admiral Richard Darton Thomas to redress the transgression and restore sovereignty to the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Honors King Kamehameha III's establishment of the holiday and his proclamation "Ua Mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono" (the sovereignty of the land is perpetuated through justice).

Directs certified copies be transmitted to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and county Mayors.