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No. 581, Solomona Laahili
N.R. 269v2
Hear ye, O Richards: I hereby tell lyou of an interest I have - it is a taro patch. /The taro/ has all been pulled up by the lunas of Keliiahonui. This taro patch is my very own - it is not a po`alima. I really did lease that taro patch. The price was a bipi /cow or bull/.
My rights in the po`alimas for which I am a konohiki are that the benefits are mine, and the one tenth /tax/ is for the ali`i.
SOLOMONA LAAHILI X
Lahaina, April 12, 1847
N.T. 30v5
No. 1000!, Laahili, (See LCA page 626 Puehuehuiki #581)
[awarded as 5524]
Z. Kaauwai, sworn, he has seen the chief give Laahili a ....
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.... out on Kauai (1826). The patch belongs to the King. Laahili only had charge of it for Him.
Z.P. Kaumaea, sworn, says he lived with Laahili in 1844. his father in law cultivated this patch under Laahili. Laahili's own poalima labor was also applied to this patch. From 1844 to 1848, all the food raised in this patch was taken by Laahili for his own use and benefit. The King got no part of it. I have heard from Laahili that he got it from the King in the Division of 1848.
(See Vol. 10 N.T. pp 170 & 171.)
[Award 581; Land Patent 8232; Puehuehunui Lahaina; 1 ap.; 3 roods 25 rods; Land Patent 8399; Puehuehuiki Lahaina; 3 ap.; 50.20 Acs; See also 10001]