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[No. 548, Kinopu], Claims No. 540 to 548 inclusive
F.R. 26v2
In Native Register
N.R. 244v2
No. 548, Kinopu, Kapuukolo, Honolulu, March 22, 1847
To the Honorable William Richards, President of the Land Commissioners, and the other four Lunas appointed by the Moi, Greetings: In accordance with the law I hereby tell you that I have a lot just makai of the place where Kelemaka /Gravier/ is living. Kahoowaha has combined my place /with his/ and says it is his. I say that this is really my own place from my ancestors and I am the heir living here at this time. I have lived here at this place from the time when there was no Law until now, keeping the laws of the land. Kahoowaha has petitioned you for this place.
I am, with aloha.
KINOPU
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.... r />M. Kekuanaoa, sworn by the Word of God and stated, I have seen this place when Kamehameha III came and stayed here. We had come together and I had lived with Kinopu there at that time. Kinopu's interest was from his grandfather, according to what I have heard. The grandfather had given his interest to Kahulumanu, Kinopu's father and Kinopu received this claim from his father after he had died. I had built a road at that time going to Kapuukolo when Kelemaka had asked me to do this and this was the time also that I had separated their place. My knowledge about the boundaries is the same as Nakahuna has stated here.
See Kahoowaha's objections, pages 61 and 78, Vol. I[No. 3, Kahoowaha; Native Testimony volume 1]
[Award 548; R.P. 5628; Kapuukolo Honolulu Kona; 1 ap.; .04 Ac.]