Hawaii Organic Act § 101

That Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands when this Act takes effect may within one year thereafter obtain certificates of residence as required by “An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an Act approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,’ approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,” and until the expiration of said year shall not be deemed to be unlawfully in the United States if found therein without such certificates: Provided, however, That no Chinese laborer, whether he shall hold such certificate or not, shall be allowed to enter any State, Territory, or District of the United States from the Hawaiian Islands.