ain any
doubts; but if by any possibility the military establishment
can be maintained upon such a scale as to ensure a promise of
security, no exertions will be wanting on the part of my
Government to do so, without overstepping the amount by you
provided.

To the members of the House of Representatives I would express
my sincere acknowledgments for the readiness with which they
have interpreted the public feeling, and provided for my
establishment under the new relations which I am about to
assume.

I have no expectations that any necessity will arise for
calling you together before the stated session of 1858, and I
trust that the interim will be full of prosperity to you and
the nation, the blessing of God making fruitful those
exertions from which I now release you by proroguing the
session.

NOVEMBER 3, 1856.

THANKSGIVING.

PROCLAMATION BY THE KING.

We, Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands, hereby issue our
Proclamation agreeably to former custom, that:

Whereas, during the year now drawing to a close, we have
enjoyed, as a people, numerous and great blessings; peace and
tranquility have prevailed throughout our islands; we have
been not only free from dangers from abroad, but have
continued to enjoy the most friendly assurances of protection
in our independence from the most powerful governments in the
world; although the times have been hard through the scarcity
of money, and our people have suffered from a drought almost
unparalleled, neither our agriculture nor commerce has
entirely failed; both begin to revive; the crops in most
places have been good; perhaps we have never enjoyed a year of
more general health; our laws have been sustained; religion
and education have been free and prosperous: For all of which
numerous and invaluable blessings we owe, as a nation, a
formal, general and heartfelt tribute of thanksgiving to the
Almighty, on whose favor all prosperity, whether individual or
national, depends.

We do, therefore, with the advice and consent of our Privy
Council of State, designate and recommend Thursday, the 25th
day of December next, as a day of general and public
Thanksgiving to Go