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Makapala, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, pps 85-89
No. 19
The Ahupuaa of Makapala, North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit
On this, the fifteenth day of April A.D. 1873, the application of C.R. Bishop, for the settlement of the boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Makapala, District of North Kohala, Hawaii, came on to be heard before the undersigned Commissioner of Boundaries for the 3d Judicial circuit, after notice personally served on the owners of adjoining lands or on their agents.
Present: S.C. Wiltse on the part of C.R. Bishop, the applicant, James Wood for H.B. Jackson and D.K. Naiapaakai for Her Excellency, R. Keelikolani; Deed of Aamakao from His Majesty, Kamehameha IV, bearing date of December 1, 1858, and recorded July 6th 1859, Liber 12, pages 23d and 24th filed for boundary between Makapala and Aamakao.
S.C. Wiltse read the petition of the applicant in the following words;
Copy
Honolulu, April 1st 1873
R.A. Lyman, Esquire, Commissioner of Boundaries &c, &c., Hawaii
Dear Sir:
The undersigned, acting for His Majesty, the King, would respectfully ask that the boundaries of the land called Makapala in Kohala, Hawaii, may be defined and settled.
The survey of said land and the notes of the same are in the hands of S.C. Wiltse, of Hamakua, who will attend at the hearing and act for the King. The land of Makapala is bounded on the east by Niulii, and on the west by Aamakao, both belonging to His late Majesty, Kamehameha V. Mauka by the land called Kehena, and makai by the sea.
Respectfully, Signed, C.R. Bishop
Testimony for applicant
Kaohe, kane, sworn says, I was born at Waimea, and brought up on Honoaula, and have since then lived on the lands of Aamakao and Makapala in Kohala Hawaii. I was born when Kamehameha 1 was preparing to go to Oahu, the year before the Peleleau came to Kawaihae. I am a kamaaina of Makapala, and know the boundaries of the land. My parents who are now dead, showed me the boundaries of the land. Makapala is bounded on the east side by the land Niulii, Kehena mauka, Aamakao on the north side, and the sea on the makai side; the fishing rights grounds belonging to Makapala in old times estended [sic] out into the sea about as far from the shore as from where we are now to the top of that hill (pointing to a hill ....
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.... ouli gulch; Thence down along the bed of the stream to center of Kaepouli gulch; Thence down along the bed of the stream
North 28 1/2° West 2.12 chains;
North 37 1/2° West 7.00 chains to place marked X on bedrock in the gulch, by large hole or pool of water called Paleuli;
Thence along land of Aamakao
North 37 1/2° West 23.30 chains; Thence
North 30 3/4° West 13.39 chains;
North 21 1/4°East 6.73 chains;
North 37 1/2° West 2.02 chains;
North 49 3/4° East 1.53 chains;
North 14° West 9.65 chains;
North 3 1/4° East 12.38 chains;
North 15° west 19.19 chains;
North 5° West 17.60 chains;
North 7° west 15.54 chains;
North 20 3/4° West 23.03 chains;
North 7° West 7.44 chains;
North 3 1/4° West 13.10 chains;
South 72° East 5.03 chains;;
North 18 1/2° East 35.50 chains;
North 36 1/2° West 2.00 chains;
North 16 1/4° East 10.70 chains;
North 34 3/4° East 11.60 chains;
North 30° East 12.05 chains;
North 52° East 6.44 chains;
North 17 1/4° East 10.19 chains;
North 34° East 12.75 chains;
North 21° East 6.72 chains;
North 1 1/2° West 4.30 chains;
North 2 1/2° East 10.18 chains;
North 74 3/4° East 7.89 chains;
North 3 3/4° East 7.89 chains;
North 3 1/4° East 3.25 chains;
North 44 3/4° West 11.25 chains;
North 25° West 5.43 chains;
North 10 1/2° West 5.54 chains;
North 9 1/2° East 9.93 chains; and
North 82 1/2° East 3.42 chains to the eastern brink of the kahawai along which it runs above the line of hau trees as follows
North 27 1/4° East 4.65 chains;
North 5° West 12.10 chains;
North 85 1/4° East 5.56 chains;
North 1/2° West 6.64 chains;
North 18 3/4° West 5.46 chains;
North 59 1/4° West 2.40 chains;
North 82° West 4.7 chains;
North 28 1/4° East 12.79 chains;
North 36 ½° West 3.77 chains;
North 6° East 3.60 chains; and
North 23 1/4° East 22.70 chains to the [page 89] the [sic] point of commencement.
Comprising an area of 1382 acres 1 rood and 20 rods.
R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, 3d Judicial Circuit
Notes: Survey by J.H. Sleeper
Costs paid in full by applicant
Book of Costs lost on wreck of Schooner Caroline Mills at Honokaa, Hamakua, Hawaii, May 1878.
[No. 19, Makapala, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 1382 acres 1 rood and 20 rods, 1873]