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Royal Patent Number(RP)8095 LCA Number:11216*H
Patentee: Kekauonohi, M. Island:Hawaii
District:Puna TMK
Ahupua'aWaiakahiula Ili
Statistics: 8108 characters 1293 words
No. 8095, Kekauonohi, M., Waiakahiula Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Volume 35, pps 5-7 [ Reel 16, 00483-00486.tif]

Land Patent No. 8095 In Confirmation of Land Commission Award

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to quiet land titles did by Land Commission Award No. 11216, Apana 40 award to M. Kekauonohi, an estate of Freehold less than Allodial in the land hereafter described,

And whereas proper application having been made to the Commissioner of Public Lands by Gulaten F. Ropert, Bishop of Pauopolis, the present owner of the Ahupuaa of Waiakahiula 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 Waiakahiula has been settled by the surrender for Commutation as of record in Volume 9 page 662 of Land Commission Awards,

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 M. Kekauonohi, all of the land situate at Waiakahiula, in the District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, bounded and described as follows:

Apana 1. Commence at a pahoehoe rock at the sea shore in a place called "Kauhaikuapuu," the boundary of this land and the Government land Kaohe, and run
South 24° West (magnetic) 1 Chain along Kaohe;
South 82° West (magnetic) 5.16 chains al ....

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.... >South 80 3/4° East (magnetic) 7.70 chains along Kaniahiku ;
South 1° East (magnetic) 30.00 chains along Kanaea (?) to "Auwai"
South 36° West (magnetic) 35.17 chains along Kanaea to Ohia tree marked K at place called "Puupahoehoe," on the old Kaimu Road; thence
North 83 1/2° West (magnetic) 17.00 chains along Kehena (?) to Ahakea tree K.
North 62 1/2° West (magnetic) 20.10 chains along Kehena to Ohia tree X;
North 6 1/2° West (magnetic) 15.00 chains along Keauohana (?) to Ohia tree marked X at "Kaupawai," Mawae, a Volcanic crack;
North 33 1/4° West 22.40 chains along Kaohe to Hookokee"
North 23 3/4° West 67.00 chains along Kaohe to "Waaomani," a canoe shaped crack in the pahoehoe, about 2 chains outside of the Ohia woods; thence down along the old Road;
North 49° East 19.30 chains along Keonipoko to Puupahoehoe P.
North 32° East 19.08 chains along Keonipoko to Ohia X;
North 36° East 81.80 chains along Keonipoko to the pile of stones at "Kaloi,"
Containing an area of 1541 acres.

Containing 2972 Acres, more or less.

To have and to hold the above granted land in Fee Simple, absolute unto the said M. Kekauonohi, and his [her] 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 9th day of April, A.D. 1901.

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

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