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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Governor of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior: Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1951 Developments during the past fiscal year bear out the hope that the 50-year-old goal of the citizenry of Hawaii for statehood will be attained in the near future. The fight for statehood continued to be a major project of the. Administration during the year. In the 1950 Report of the Governor of Hawaii, attention was called. To the hearings (may 1 to 5) before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Senate and to the drafting of a constitution for the proposed State of Hawaii. With respect to the latter, it can now be reported that the proposed constitution _was approved almost unanimously by the Territorial legislature in special session (september 29 to October 13, 1950) without recommendations for alternate proposals. The document was submitted to the electorate for ratification on November _7, 1950, and the voters of Hawaii approved the constitution, as drafted, by a three to one majority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.