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Royal Patent Number(RP)8094 LCA Number:08559B*H
Patentee: Lunalilo, W.C. Island:Hawaii
District:Puna TMK
Ahupua'aKeahialaka Ili
Statistics: 10822 characters 1598 words
No. 8094, Lunalilo, W.C., Keahialaka Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Volume 35, pps 1-3 [ Reel 16, 00479-00481.tif]

Land Patent No. 8094 In Confirmation of Land Commission Award

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to quiet land titles did by Land Commission Award No. 8859B, Apana 15 award to W.C. Lunalilo, an estate of Freehold less than Allodial in the land hereafter described,

And whereas proper application having been made to the Minister of the Interior by M.P. Robinson, Attorney in fact for Robert Rycroft, the present owner of the Ahupuaa of Keahialaka in the District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, for a Patent on the herein described land, and a certificate of boundaries defining the same having been duly filed and whereas the Government Commutation in said Ahupuaa of Keahialaka has been settled by resolution of the Privy Council August 27, 1850, and by surrender of lands recorded in Land Commission Awards, Volume 10, Page 149[?].

Therefore, the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, in conformity with the Laws of the United States of America and of the Territory of Hawaii, by this Patent makes known to all men that he has this day granted and confirmed absolutely, in Fee Simple, unto W.C. Lunalilo, all of the land situate at Keahialaka, in the District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a large pile of rocks by a hala tree marked A near the sea shore, from which the extremity of the cape called "Lae o Kahuna" (the said cape being the Northeast Angle of Keahialaka) bears South 64° 00' West true distant 140 feet, and the spire of Pohoiki Church North 34° 90' East true, distant 1175 feet, the boundary runs by the true Meridian.

1.    North 62° 49' West 2390 feet along Grant 3209, R. Rycroft, to bread fruit tree marked B and pile of stones in Kukuikukii;
2.    North 32° 46' West 675 feet along Grant to cocoanut tree marked C and pile of stones in Kaainui;
3.    North 64° 07' West 2070 feet along Grant to Ohia lehua tree D and pile of stones in Kawauu ....

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.... sp; North 68° 15' East (magnetic) 644 feet;
47.    South 63° 00' East (magnetic) 666 feet to Bread-fruit tree marked X, relocated and remarked L/[triangle];
48.    South 82° 15' East Magnetic 132 feet to pile of stones;
49.    South 46° 45' East magnetic 229 feet;
50.    South 33° 30' East magnetic 322 feet;
51.    South 68° 00' East magnetic 619 feet to kukui tree marked X, remarked I/[triangle];
52.    South 28° 00' East magnetic 396 feet;
53.    South 33° 30' East magnetic 536 feet;
54.    South 74° 45' East magnetic 366 feet to pile of stones on boundary of Grant No. 1002, Kapai, thence by true bearing;
55.    North 58° 10' East 220 feet along Grant 1002 to North angle of same at Breadfruit tree marked XII;
56.    South 62° 30' East 1468 feet along said grant to pile of stones at East angle;
57.    South 70° 28' East 865 feet along Government land of Kaukulau to point at sea coast from which the Hawaiian Government Survey Reference Point "Kaukulau" bears South 63° 10' West true distant 863 feet.
58. North 43° 07' East 2578 feet, the boundary following the windings of the sea coast at high water mark to a point opposite to, and thence to the point of commencement and containing an area of Five thousand five hundred and Sixty-two acres more or less.

Containing 5562 Acres, more or less.

To have and to hold the above granted land in Fee Simple, absolute unto the said W.C. Lunalilo, and his heirs and assigns forever.

In Witness whereof, The Governor of the Territory of Hawaii has hereto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of the Territory to be hereunto affixed, this 2nd day of April, A.D. 1901.

(Great Seal)

By the Governor, (Signed) Sanford B. Dole
(Signed) J.F. Brown, Commissioner of Public Lands

[Royal Land Patent No. 8094, Lunalilo, W.C., Keahialaka Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, 5562 Acs., 1901