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No. 5228, H. Kuihelani
N.R. 250-251v6
A letter stating the claims for land in Wailuku and Waikapu. I, H. Kuihelani, hereby state to you, the Land Commissioners, my claim for land in Wailuku, a lot and land, it is also a house lot. This right was from Lunalilo - I am his subject.
The boundaries are as follows: on the north is the brink of the pali, on the east is the highway, on the south is the road ascending inland, on the west is the lot of Ki, and Halaula. Those are the boundaries of that house lot and land.
At Kalua is this claim for a little kula for cultivation, bounded on the north by the lot of Kaili, on the east by the lo`i of Pukua, on the south by the lo`is of Haleola, and the lo`is of Hamanalau. Those are the boundaries. I have 23 lo`i there which are my own.
Also, at Waikapu, is a land which is a house lot, enclosed on all four sides by fence. On the north is the lot of Akoni and the road ascending inland, on the east is a kula, on the south is a stream, on the west is the house lot of Puupahoehoe. Those are the boundaries of that lot.
The names and claims of the people who plant in that enclosed land are:
Nauai, 32 loi, 2 kula
Kanehailua, 8 loi, 1 kula
Molokini, 17 loi, 1 kula
Laa, 19 loi, 1 kula
Pinai, 13 loi, 1 kula.
These are my own people, they are planting in my /land/ and they are not disputed in their planting and occupancy. The name of this place is Wahaneomaili.
H. KUIHELANI
Wailuku, 19 January 1848
Kuihelani: Another claim, in Kula.
I, H. Kuihelani, also hereby state another claim: in Kula are three potato mala, also a house site. No one has disputed them until the present.
At Kalepolepo is another little house site, which was received from Hewahewa and has never been disputed.
H. KUIHELA ....
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.... not the owner of the land, but, the king was owner, and he (Hewahewa) was only his servant (Kanaka). This was said before the land was given to Hewahewa. The occasion of his saying it was dispute about a goat pen.
Pupuka (Wahine), sworn, I have lived as a servant with Hewahewa (Ohua) since 1840 - don't know of his giving land to anybody.
Kalia, sworn for claimant - lived at Wailuku till 1842 or '3, then came to live under Hewahewa, was Hewahewa's luna poalima, and collected money for him for the rent of the lands - took at one time five dollars of claimant, for the rent of the land in dispute. When I first came to live with Hewahewa there was only one field of Irish potatoes in this region -- that belonged to Moha. I was here a year or so and after that claimant and others came and got land of Hewahewa to plant Irish potatoes. The sugar mill at Wailuku was abandoned before I came up here - there was no more cane ground afterwards, claimant did not plant my potatoes till after I had been some time here.
I was sent to claimant by Hewahewa to collect his rent - and asked him for the rent of his field five dollars which he gave me, and I gave it to Hewahewa, Kapawa had a lot in Kuihelani's which claimant, gave him to work. Here claimant stated that the five dollars which he gave to witness was not for the rent of his field, but was paid as an ahupuaa tax which both he and Hewahewa paid alike, five dollars each - in order that the ahupuaa might remain in their care, and not be forfeited to the government in default of rent payment.
[Award 5228; R.P. 633; Kapalaia Kaonoulu; 1 ap. 1.80 Ac.; Kapukahawai Kaonoulu; 1 ap.; 28 Ac.; R.P. 1998; Wailuku Wailuku 2 ap.; 4.75 Acs; R.P. 1998; Wahineomaili Waikapu; 1 ap.; 9.4 Acs; R.P. 633; Kalua Waikapu; 2 ap.; 7.13 Acs.]