Puumoi Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume D, No. 5, pps 82-84
In Re boundaries of the Land of Puumoi, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii Land Commission Award 6247, Royal Patent 7999,
Application Hilo, February 7th 1893 Honorable F.S. Lyman, Boundary Commissioner, 3d and 4th Judicial Circuits Dear Sir: Acting in behalf of the owners of the Ahupuaa of Puumoi, Land Commission Award 6247, Hilo, Hawaii & in conformity with the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate the settlement of boundaries, ["] I would respectfully request that you fix upon some date, between the 2nd or 3rd week of march next, if convenient to you, as the one when you will site on the case.
I further subjoin the names of adjoining lands & owners thereof so far as known to me & have further to request that you likewise extend notice to them. I am, Sir, Yours Respectfully, A.B. Loebenstein Agent for Onomea Sugar Co., owners of the Ahupuaa of Puumoi
Lands, Owners Alakahi, Hawaiian government Mokuoniki, Grant 2003, Apana 1, Onomea Sugar Co. Mokuoniki, Grant 2691, Heirs of Barenaba Mokuoniki, Grant 2229, Kalua Kalaoa, Kalua & Peahi Kalaoa, Kane Kalaoa, Waialee Kalaoa, Namauu Kalaoa, Kahaoa Kalaoa, D. Kamai Papaikou, Onomea Sugar Co.
[page 83] In Re Boundaries of Puumoi, Hilo, Hawaii
Court House, Hilo, Hawaii, March 14, 1893, 10 a.m.
Present: W.W. Goodale, Manager of the Onomea sugar Co.; A.B. Loebenstein, George Williams, D.I. Wailani, B. Waialee, Waiono, Namauu, Manumanu, Maikaaloa Kauhi, Keoho, & others.
Application of the Onomea sugar co. for settlement of the Boundaries of the Land Puumoi, read, also Notice published in the Hawaiian Gazette of February 14, 21 & 28, and Kuokoa of February, read in court, for hearing this day.
Evidence A.B. Loebenstein, sworn, I surveyed the land of Puumoi. It begins at the sea and runs up into the woods; on the South side it adjoins Kalaoa, a gulch called "Leinahapuna" being between; the gulch ends just below the woods, then follow up the old road, which is the boundary of Kalaoa and Puumoi to "Kapuwai," a swamp there, at the head of Kalaoa as certified, and at this point it joins Papaikou. Puumoi runs along Papaikou, on one side, and Alakahi on the other. From Kapuwai I ran an independent course, as we did not know just where to go, and upon reaching a point supposed to be the junction of Papaikou and Alakahi, I set a flag, and triangulated to it from points fixed by the Government, in order to determine where it should strike the Papaikou line, and also had to locate the end of line #11 of the Papaikou Certificate No. 165 - which is a bearing about five miles lo ....
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.... ;true" 420 feet along Grant 2601, Barenaba, an old trail & the present road; 35. South 86° 10' East "true" 1964 feet along Grant 2601, Barenaba, an old trail & the present road; 36. South 84° 04' East "true" 620 feet along Grant 2601, Barenaba, an old trail & the present road to a point bearing South 66° 32' East "true" from Hawaiian Government survey Trig 2d Station "Puumoi" distant 270 feet; 37. North 88° 10' East "true" 454 feet along Grant 2691, Barenaba to head of the Mokuoniki gully; thence 38. South 75° 30' East "true" 3760 feet along middle of the Mokuoniki gully the boundary between Puumoi and Grant 2229 to Kalua, Mokuoniki, to top of a mound in said gully; thence 39. North 84° 43' East "true" 915 feet the middle of the Mokuoniki gully the boundary; 40. North 40° 10' East "true" 292 feet the middle of the Mokuoniki gully the boundary to the junction of the same with the Alakahi stream known from here on to the sea as the Hanawi; 41. South 77° 40' East "true" 367 feet the middle of the Hanawi stream the boundary; 42. North 33° 50' East "true" 445 feet the middle of the Hanawi stream the boundary; 43. South 70° 23' east "true" 485 feet the middle of the Hanawi stream the boundary to point of rocks at foot of bluff and mouth of stream called Kalaeekeiki; thence 44. South 26° 52' East "true" 276 feet around the bluff, the boundary being along the sea coast at high water mark to the mouth of the Kalaoa stream; thence 45. South 67° 00' West "true" 952 feet along the middle of the Kalaoa stream to the Initial point Containing an area of 847.3 acres (as surveyed by A.B. Loebenstein) 17 folio
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 third day of May, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. F.S. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries 18 folio copy
Puumoi Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume D, p. 83
Land of Puumoi, Hilo, Hawaii May 3 1893 today hearing testimony, $10.00; Notice Hawaiian Gazette $3.50; Notice Kuokoa $3.50; [subtotal] $7.00 9 folio record of testimony @ 25c 2.25 2 Oaths .25 17 folio description in Certificate @ 50c 8.50 18 folio copy of Certificate @ 25c 4.50 Certificate in duplicate @ $2, 4.00 [Total] $36.50 paid F.S. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries
[No. 169; Puumoi Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 847.3 acres, 1893]