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Royal Patent Number(RP)8150 LCA Number:00153
Patentee: Sumner, William Island:Oahu
District:Kona TMK
Ahupua'aHonolulu IliKahololoa
Statistics: 8004 characters 1377 words
No. 8150, Sumner, William, Kahaohao and Kahololoa Ili, Honolulu Ahupuaa, District of Kona, Island of Oahu, Volume 35, pps 224-227 [RP Reel 16, 00711-00715.tif]

Land Patent No. 8150 In Confirmation of Land Commission Award

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to quiet land titles did by Land Commission Award No. 153 award to William Sumner, an estate in fee in land situated in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, called Kahaohao and Kahololoa, by metes and bounds set out in said Award;

And whereas a portion of said premises described in said Award as the sea and reef part being of said Kahololoa consists of land covered or partly covered by water and includes Quarantine Island, and dispute has arisen as to the extent or nature of the title confirmed by this Award, in and to said sea and reef part of said premises;

And whereas it has been agreed between the United States of America and the Dowsett Company, Limited, and the Oahu Railway and Land Company, both corporations existing and doing business at said Honolulu under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of Hawaii, as holders of the title of said William Sumner in said premises, that all questions in controversy respecting the title to said premises or any part of the same shall be forever settled and put at rest, by this conveyance upon the conditions below named, by said parties to the United States of America of the portion of said premises including Quarantine Island, lying Southerly or to the seaward of a division line drawn as follows:

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.... eet along Iwilei to concrete monument; thence
South 70° 26" West 845 feet along Kapalama to an iron pin at the northwest end of the division line agreed upon; thence
South 55° 28" East 4030 feet along said division line passing 300 feet northeasterly from the north corner of the coral wall surrounding the Sumner House to a point on the line of five feet depth of water on the west side of Honolulu Harbor as determined by soundings taken in 1892 by Lieutenant E.K. Moore, U.S.N. shown on map on file in the Government Survey Office, from which point the Government Survey Station Kawa bears North 19° 43" East 2775 feet; thence along said line of five feet depth;
North 14° East 137 feet; thence
North 31° East 80 feet, thence [Page 5]
North 31° East 320 feet along the Harbor line; thence
North 39° 30" East 96 feet along the Harbor line; thence
North 32° 20" East 111 feet; thence
North 35° East 118 feet, thence
North 56° East 84 feet, thence leaving said line of five feet depth,
North 39° 30" East 66 feet along the Harbor line; thence
North 71° 35" East 29 feet along the Harbor line to the South corner of Land Commission Award 11225; thence
North 31° 30" West 383 feet along Land Commission Award 11225; thence
North 33° 21" "West 320 feet along Land Commission Award 7713, Apana 49; thence
North 19° 40" East 655 feet along Land Commission Award 7713, Apana 49 to the initial point,
Containing 119 acres, more or less.

And also in addition to any other riparia