Boundary Commission

1884 155 Bishop, Bernice Pauahi
Certification: 155
Ahupua`a Kulaikahono
District: Hilo
Island Hawaii
Ownership: Bishop, Bernice Pauahi
Misc:
Year: 1884
Statistics: 8227 characters 1334 words
Kulaikahono Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume D, No. 5, pps 17-18

Land Boundary Commission, Third Judicial District, Hawaiian Islands, Hilo, Hawaii.
September 22, 1884

Land of Kulaikahono, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands.

Notice was published in the Hawaiian Gazette and Kuokoa for a hearing September 185h 1884, but the kamaaina, Kalani not appearing the case was continued until this day.

Present: Kalani, Pilipo, Kaiwi, and others.

[left blank] states that he now owns the portion of Grant No. 1542 makai of the Government Road and that the Grant was surveyed along the true boundary between Kakopa and Kulaikahono.

Evidence
Kalani, kane, sworn, I am a kamaaina of this land, Kulaikahono and the adjoining lands, Kaakepa and Laimi. I have lived there nearly all my life, and formerly owned the adjoining land covered by Grants No. 1357 of Kanukupuu, and the portion of No. 1542, of Puniawa, lying makai of the Government Road. I saw these Grants surveyed by Henry Lyman, as also Hema's (Kealohawela) Grant No. 2710; they were surveyed along the correct boundary of Kulaikahono and Kaakepa; the boundary is a small gulch at the sea which runs out before it reaches the mauka end of Kanukupuu; the boundary follows up a hollow to the Government Road, and fro thence there is no natural boundary.

On the side adjoining Laimi the stream of water in the gulch is the boundary between Kulaikahono and Laimi, from the sea to the end of the land, in the woods; I do not know where th ....

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.... >30. North 41° East 25.58 chains
31. North 50 1/3° East 16.57 chains to the corner of Grant No. 34 of George Moore;
32. North 61° East 17.60 chains;
33. North 23° East 11.38 chains;
34. North 58 3/4° East 19.05 chains;
35. North 83° East 8.74 chains to the Aupuni road;
36. North 36° East 13.60 chains;
37. North 41 1/3° East 9.40 chains;
38. North 57 ½° East 12.12 chains;
39. North 21° East 13.12 chains;
40. North 3 3/4° East 5.72 chains along the stream, and shore to the end of the point, thence;
41. North 89° East 7.30 chains along the sea shore to point of rocks;
42. South 40° West 8.25 chains along the sea shore;
43. South 34 3/4° East 10.40 chains along the sea shore;
44. South 66° East 2.45 chains along the sea shore to the starting point;
containing an area of 177 acres, more or less.

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 under my hand at Hilo, Island of Hawaii, the 22nd day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty four.
September 22d, 1884
F.S. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries

Costs: Certificate $2.-; 8 folio description 4.-; Witness fee 1.-; 1 day taking testimony
10.-; Notice Gazette 3.-; Notice Kuokoa 2.-; $22.-; folio record testimony 1.-; $23.-

Interior department
Certified Copy, Certificate $2.-; 9 folio copy 2.25; $4.25

[No. 155, Kulaikahono Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 177 acres, 1884]