Boundary Commission

1877 121 Namauu, Keoki
Certification: 121
Ahupua`a Kalaoa portion
District: Hilo
Island Hawaii
Ownership: Namauu, Keoki
Misc:
Year: 1877
Statistics: 10135 characters 1754 words
Kalaoa Ahupuaa (Namauu), District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1; p. 249

Kalaoa, District of Hilo

Honorable R.A. Lyman, Boundary Commissioner for Island of Hawaii

The undersigned would respectfully request your Honor to set a day for the hearing & settling of the boundaries of the land of Kalaoa situated in the district of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, as per survey or otherwise, as shall be set forth on the day of hearing; and that having heard Your Honor will give a certificate of the same.
And as in duty bound your Petitioner will ever Pray, &c, J.M. Smith
Per E.G. Hitchcock, attorney
Hilo, Hawaii, August 22d 1873

[J.M. Smith subsequently sells to Kamai, Kahaoa, Kahe, Kane, Waialee & Namauu]


Kalaoa Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume B, pps. 432-434

Hilo, October 18th 1877
For petition see folio 249, Book A, or No. 1.

Land of Kalaoa
On this the 18th day of October A.D. 1877, the Commission of Land Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii 3d Judicial Circuit, met at the house of F.S. Lyman, in Hilo, Hawaii, on the application of J.M. Smith per E.G. Hitchcock, attorney, filed August 22, 1873 and recorded in Book 1 or A folio 249, for the settlement of the boundaries of portions of the land of Kalaoa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit.

The Commission met without notice to interested parties to take the evidence of F.S. Lyman in relation to the surveys of diffrent [sic] portions of the land, filed by him this day, as he is expecting to go to Honolulu today to be absent several weeks.

F.S. Lyman, sworn, says, the people owning Kalaoa employed me to survey the land, and divide it up for them during the years 1875 & 1876. I divided the land between them, and made survey of the diffrent portions, taking the natural boundaries, a ravine on North side from shore ....

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.... fered in reference to the said boundaries and having endeavored otherwise to obtain all information possible to enable me to arrive at a just and equitable boundaries are as follows, viz.;
[page 296]
Apana Aina o Namauu, ma Kalaoa, Hilo, Hawaii.

E hoomaka ma ke awawa e pili me ka aina o William Kinney 4.70 kaulahao, mauka iho o ka puhala i hoailona ia X. A e holo ma ia awawa;
Akau 89° 10' Komohana 28.80 kaulahao, e pili ana me ka aina o William Kinney; alaila ma ka honua;
Hema 47½° Hikina 7.43 kaulahao e pili ma me ka aina o William Kinney. Sila Nui Helu 3140; a hiki i kahawai "Lalahala," 300 kapuai makai o ka pahihi "Lainapau;" alaila ma ia kahawai.
Akau 89° Komohana 10.20 kaulahao, i ka aina o Bila Waialee; alaila ma ka palena o kona aina;
Akau 9.70 kaulahao, i ke kahawai a pili ana me Puumoi; alaila ma ia kahawai;
Akau 74 3/4° Hikina 31.20 kaulahao, i ka aina o Kahaoa; alaila e pili ana me ko Kahaoa aina
Hema 14½° Hikina 14.00 kaulahao a hiki i kahi i hoomaka ai.
Maloko o keia 36½ Eka a oi iki, a emi iki paha
(Signature) F.S. Lyman, (Hilo August 1876)

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 this 24th day of October A.D. 1877 at Hilo, Hawaii.
R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Land Boundaries, Third Judicial Circuit
[page 297]

In this case the expenses are
CostsKeoki Namauu's portion of Kalaoa, his share of expenses of hearings, recording testimony & petitions, Book A or No. 1, Folio 249 and Book B or No. 2, Folios 432, 433 & 434 $3.75
Certificate, stamps, description & recording 9.25
$13.-
which are awarded to Namauu 13.-
R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Land Boundaries, Third Judicial Circuit

[No. 121, Kalaoa Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, portion, 36½ Eka; 1877; Hawaiian edited by Quintero]