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Papaikou Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume B, pp. 155-159
TheAhupuaa of Papaikou, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit
On this, the 19th day of May A.D. 1874, the Commission of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit, on the application of D.H. Hitchcock (for the owners of Papaikou) for the settlement of the boundaries of Papaikou situated in the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, met at the Office of E.G. Hitchcock for the hearing of evidence of witnesses in regard to said boundary. Due notice personally served on owners or Agents of adjoining lands as far as known.
Present: D.H. and E.G. Hitchcock, applicants, S.L. Austin for Onomea; F.H. Harris for Pukaa; E.G. Hitchcock for Crown Commissioners; D. Kamai for Hawaiian Government; Kahuaina for owners of Kaieie; Kaukuna for Kaapoko and Paihaeloa.
Petition read as follows:
Copy
Honorable R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, Island of Hawaii
The undersigned would request that Your Honor appoint a day for settling the Boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Papaikou situate in the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii and to that end would respectfully ask that the survey of the said Ahupuaa, made by Henry M. Lyman (A copy of which is hereby annexed) may be made the basis of said settlement. The Ahupuaas of Paukaa, Piihonua, Onomea & Makahanaloa, Pepekeo on either side & Humuula on the mauka side are the only lands wherein any dispute can lie as the smaller lands on the lower bounds, are all surveyed & none of them extend any distance to speak of into the woods.
Respectfully Yours,
D.H. Hitchcock for Owners of Papaikou
Hilo, May 1st 1873
[page 156]
Testimony
Kapae, kane, sworn, I was born at Hilo paliku at the time of Oku. I have lived at Papaikou since 1849 and know something about the boundaries. Commencing at the sea shore at a kahawai Kapoho is on the Hamakua side of the gulch and Papaikou is on the Puna side. Some of the old kamaaina now dead told me some of the boundaries when I first came here, Henry Lyman surveyed the boundaries, I went with them but Puhaula (now present) was the kamaaina. I was konohiki of Papaikou at that time.
We surveyed up the gulch to a place called Kukui where Kapoko ends; thence along Paihaloa (at Kukui the boundary leaves the awaawa and runs towards Makahanaloa) to Kaieie gulch Pohuolani is the mauka corner of Paihaloa on this side; Thence along Kaieie gulch between the lands of Kaieie and Papaikou to Mahulua there we stopped surveying and that is as far as I know the boundaries on that side.
There is a gulch between Piihau and Puueopaku. Bounded on the makai side by the sea to Kapue gulch thence up to Iloi [iloi] gulch, a branch of Kapue.
Cross-examined
(Note) D.H. Hitchcock says the above evidence is all he brought Kapae for, as he helped the surveyor.
Puuhaula, kane, sworn, I was born at Kona in 1804 at the time of Peleleu. I am a kamaaina of Papaikou having come here when I was a small boy. I know the boundaries on the Hamauka side by Waaholi gulch, at the sea shore; thence mauka in the gulch to Lanalo, at Kukui, thence along Paihaloa to makai of Pohuolani; thence to Kaieie gulch, boundary between Kaieie and Papaikou [page 157]; Thence along Kaieie gulch to Maulua; thence to Waiakalae on the Aleamai stream. Waiakalae is the old water head for Papaikou Mill. From here, I have been told by canoe makers, the boundary runs to a place called Nahuina where Aleamai ends and Hakahi joins Papaikou. I have been there. I was kamaaina for Henry Lyman when he surveyed Papaikou, I went with him to Makalua. Kapae, Kalana (owner of[left blank]) and Holopinai were with us. I have not heard where Makahanaloa, Onomea and Papaikou join. The old bird catchers went up into the woods, but I do not know how far as I never went with them.
The kahawai Iloi is the boundary between Papaiko and Puueopaku. Sea makai side.
Cross-examined.
The old Alakahi road ran up the boundary to Palanolelo and was said to be the boundary between Makahanaloa and Papaikou; I have been up and back again on this road.
Paele of Aleamai and others were there.
Kuhipono, kane, sworn, I am a kamaaina of Papaikou. I was born there, and my parents also. I was born at the time of Oku. My Father was a canoe maker. I followed the same trade, and used to go with him on Papaikou. Piihau is an ili of Papaikou. Puueokapu [sic?] is on the Puna side, the Iloi gulch being the boundary. At the shore the pali belongs to Puueokapu and the rocks, limo [limu?] &c at the base to Papaikou; thence the boundary runs up the gulch to the end; thence up an old trail to pahoehoe gulch in the woods (Hanai's piece is in the edge of the woods); thence up a trail along side of the gulch to Nahui ....
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.... ounds, see Book No. 4, C.
I hereby certify that the within document on pages 1 and 2 of this sheet is a true copy of the description by survey of the land of Papaikou, made by myself on September 5th 1882, and as set forth in the preliminary note thereto.
(Signed) Curtis J. Lyons
July 12, 1889
16 folio
Costs
To Notice in Hawaiian Gazette settled by Petition
July, To Notice in Kuokoa, settled by Petitioner
August 15, To one day hearing testimony &c. $10.0
To Certificate of Boundaries 2.00, To6 folio description in ditto [copy] at .50 c. $3.00, To 16 folio testimony at .25 c. 4.00; 9.00
Papaikou Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume C, No. 4, pp. 73-75
No. 165
Certificate of Boundaries of the Land of Papaikou, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii
Land Commission Award No. [left blank]
Commission of Boundaries, Third Judicial Circuit,
F.S. Lyman, Esquire, Commissioner
In the Matter of the Boundaries of the Land of Papaikou, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii
Judgment
An application to decide and certify the Boundaries of the Land of Papaikou, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, having been filed with me on the 15th day of July, A.D. 1886, by W.R. Castle, attorney for the Onomea Sugar company, owners of said land, in accordance with the provisions of an Act facilitate the settlement of Boundaries, &c., approved on the 22nd day of June A.D. 1868; now, therefore, having duly received and heard all the testimony offered in reference to the said boundaries, and having gone on the said land at the request of C.J. Lyons, Government Surveyor, in the year 1879 to locate the mountain corners, and having endeavored otherwise to obtain all information possible to enable me to arrive at a just decision, which will appear by reference to the records of this matter by me kept in Book No. 5, D, pages 46 to 50, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the true, lawful and equitable boundaries, are as follows, viz.:
Beginning at a water fall on the pali at sea coast at the extreme foot of the gulch leading from the Land Kaapoko, and running as follows:
1. South 56° 45' West (true) 1650 feet along Kaapoko to the Government road;
2. North 68° 15' West (true) 1325 feet along Kaapoko;
3. South 78° 30' West (true) 305 feet along Kaapoko; [page 74]
4. South 66° 55' West (true) 1214 feet along Kaapoko;
5. South 85° 15' West (true) 1940 feet along Kaapoko;
6. South 72° 15' West (true) 400 feet along Kaapoko;
7. South 50° 45' West(true) 656 feet along Kaapoko;
8, North 89° 00' West (true) 568 feet along Kaapoko to the head of Kaapoko;
9. North 77° 45' West (true) 3160 feet along the land Paihaaloa;
10. North 86° 30' West (true) 3076 feet along the land Kaieie to an ohia tree specified in H.M. Lyman's survey;
11. North 63° 30' West (true) 24250 feet, along Kaieie, Kalaoa, Puu Moi, and Onomea to the head of the latter named land, 5400 feet South, and 12850 feet West (true) from the Kauku Trig. Station;
12. South 80° 50' West (true) 49500 feet along Makahanaloa to the summit of a small conical hill, the most southern of a range overlooking the country below, 4550 feet North and 10250 feet East of Ahuwela Trig. Station;
13. South 15° 00' West (true) 3700 feet along Humuula to a fall on the Nukupahu Gulch, near an old site called Simmon's hut;
14. South 89° 27' East (true) 54250 feet along the land Paukaa to the head of Pahoehoe;
15. South 77° 30' East (true) 14900 feet along Pahoehoe to head of Pueopaku as surveyed by H.M. Lyman;
16. North 84° 30' East (true) 4364 feet along the land Pueopaku;
17. North 80° 30' East (true) 2553 feet along Pueopaku;
18. South 86° 15' East (true) 2977 feet along Pueopaku;
19. South 67° 15' East (true) 420 feet along Pueopaku;
20. South 88° 45' East (true) 6595 feet along Pueopaku, the middle of the gulch however being the boundary on this last course to the sea to an imaginary point which is South 9° 30' East (true) 4750 feet from the initial point;
21. Thence along the sea to the said initial point, and containing an area of 14,000 Acres
[margin note: 6 folio; Copy 9 folio] [page 75]
It is therefore adjudged and I do hereby decide and certify that the boundaries of the said land are, and hereafter shall be as hereinbefore set forth.
Given under my hand at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight-hundred and eighty nine.
F.S. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries
[No. 165, Papaikou Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 14,000 Acres, 1889]