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Honouliuli Ahupuaa, District of Ewa, Island of Oahu, Boundary Commission, Oahu, Volume 1, 2, pps. 131-133
Boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Honouliuli, Oahu
Field June 23d 1873
Application of Mrs. A.A. Haaelea
To the Honorable W.P. Kamakau, Commissioner Boundaries for the island of Oahu, one of the Hawaiian Islands.
The undersigned applicant represents that she is the owner of the Ahupuaa called Honouliuli, situated in the District of Ewa, Island of Oahu aforesaid, that the same was awarded by name to Mikahela Kekauonohi, deceased, by Land Commission Award No. 11216; that the same has not been awarded by the Land Commission, patented or conveyed by Deed from the King by boundaries described in such award, patent or Deed; and therefore she respectfully requests that the boundaries of said Ahupuaa may be settled by Your Honorable Commission, and to that end makes this application to have the boundaries of said land decided and certified by you as Commissioner of Boundaries as aforesaid.
Pursuant to the statute, the Undersigned applicant represents that the name of the land is Honouliuli, in the District of Ewa, Island of Oahu, one of the Hawaiian islands; that the following are the names of the adjoining lands, and the names of the owners of the same, so far as known to the undersigned applicant, to wit. "Waianae," Crown Land; "Nanakuli", Crown Land; "Pauhala" owned by J. Robinson; "Waikakalaua," Crown Land in possession of J. Robinson; "Hoaeae," owned by J. Robinson; "Waikele," owned by K. Komoikehuehu; "Waipio," owned by Estate John Ii, deceased; "Halawa," owned by Dowager Queen Emma.
That the undersigned applicant is unable to give a general description of the boundaries claimed, other than as to lands bordering on the Ahupuaa of Honouliuli, but intends to have filed with the Honorable Commission a full survey and plot of the said land upon which she intends to adduce proof as to the Boundaries of said land.
Very Respectfully for A.A. Haalelea by her Attorney at Law, R.H. Stanley
Honolulu, June 23, 1873
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Supplement to Application
Filed June 24th 1873
Honolulu, June 24th 1873
Honorable W.P. Kamakau, commissioner of Boundaries for the Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands,
Sir,
Herewith please find under cover "Memoranda on the Boundaries of Honouliuli" as furnished by Mr. Alexander, Government Surveyor; which please annex as part and parcel of application delivered you yesterday.
So soon as the Survey now in progress is completed, full field notes together with a plot or map of the Boundaries of Honouliuli, as claimed, will be furnished.
I am, Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant, R.H. Stanley, Attorney for Mrs. A.A. Haalelea, owner of the Ahupuaa of Honouliuli.
Filed with above June 24th.
Memoranda on the Boundary of Honouliuli.
1. The boundary between this land and Hoaeae was first surveyed by J. Metcalf May 29, 1848, and the "Kula" of Hoaeae was awarded to L. Rees by this survey.
See Award 193, Volume 1, p. 536.
Starting from a stake at makai Southwest corner of Hoaeae at Kaulu, Metcalf's survey runs as follows:
I. North 45° 30' West 54 chains (54.20 in original field book) 13 3/12 feet to a point in the old road on mauka side of gulch near mauka Northwest corner of Namauu's land.
(from a limestone in the wall at mauka northwest angle of Namauu's land, it is North 72 1/2° West 7.30 chains to the above mentioned point in the old road)
II. Thence North 47° 15' West 42.90 chains to a rock by the road called Pohaku Palahalala.
III. Thence North 29° 45' West 29.30 chains to a stone marked X by the road.
IV. Thence North 31° 15' West 71 chains to rock marked + by by [sic] the road;
V. Thence North 33° 15' West 97.30 chains to a large wiliwili tree;
VI. Thence North 44° 45' West 51.340 chains to old kukui tree;
VII. Thence North 29° 30' West 64.20 chains to a pile of stones on North upper [page 133] bank of Ekahanui gulch;
VIII. Thence North 32° 15' East 45.30 chains along Lihue to a kukui tree marked A in clump of Kukui trees;
IX. Thence North 36° 15' East 55.30 chains along Lihue to a large kukui tree, marked B, at bottom ledge of Waikele gulch (Manawaielelu in field book) at mauka Northwest corner of Hoaeae.
2. The boundary of Honouliuli next follows the line between it and the Ili of Pauhala in the Ahupuaa of Waikele or more particularly, that part of Pauhala which belonged to the heirs of Lulukiwalani [Luluhiwalani], and now belongs to J. Robinson. This part of Pauhala was conveyed to them by Royal Patent 4486 [Award 4 M.A.], by a survey made by J.H. Sleeper in March 1859. His survey was made independently of Metcalf's survey of the adjoining land of Hoaeae, and I have not ascertained how well they agree. As near as I can ascertain the boundary between Pouhala and Lihue according to Sleeper's survey would be as follows:
X. North 21 1/4° [?] West 4.07 chains
XI. North 24 1/4° West 31.17 chains
XII. North 25 1/4° West 15.61 chains to rock at the western corner of this Pauhala.
3. Honouliuli next borders on a portion of Pauhala which belongs to his Majesty, being a Crown land. I know of no survey of it.
4. The next land bordering on Honouliuli is Waikakalaua, a Crown Land.By an old survey made in 1846, the boundary between Waikakalaua and Lihue runs as follows, beginning at the corner of Pauhala North 30° West 37 chains; North 23° West 24.35 chains; North 23 1/2° West 27.87 chains to corner of Waianae and Waikakalaua.
5. The boundary ....
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.... aeae, to a red wood post 375 feet beyond the Government road near the brink of a gulch;
2. South 36° 06' ast 3703 feet to a point adjoining the west corner of Royal Patent 778 in Kaulu;
3. Along the brink of the Pali to a point opposite a red wood post which bears South 54° 28' East 895 feet from the last corner where land Hoaeae begins:
4. Beginning again at Pohaku Palahalaha North 21° 21' West 2035 feet to a pile of stones; along
5. Hoaeae, thence North 22° 3' West 4686 feet along do [same] to a red wood post, and thence
6. North 23° 46' West 6422 feet to red wood post, and
7. North 35° 32' west 4410 feet to red wood post by an old Kukui tree adjoining Hoaeae;
8. North 20° 33' West 4237 feet across Ekahanui Gulch to a granite post at the Northwest corner of Hoaeae; thence
9. North 41° 18' East 2990 feet to a red wood post, still along Hoaeae;
10. North 43° 36 ½ feet to a marked rock at the head of an ancient “holua” near the junction of the Poliwai with the Manawaielu gulch on the boundary between Hoaeae & Pouhala, thence;
11. North 16° 49' west 265 feet along Lower Pouhala as per Royal Patent No. 4486, to a marked stone post; thence
12. North 14° 24' West 2057 feet along Pouhala to a marked stone &
13. North 31° 36' West 1090 feet to a large flat rock at the Northwest corner of Royal Patent 4486;
14. North 26° 43' West 4587 feet along upper Pouhala to a marked stone, and thence;
15. North 15° 44' West 2467 feet to brink of the Kawaieli gulch by the road; thence
16. North 11° 52' West 1363 feet across the Kawaieli gulch to a granite post which is the corner of Honouliuli, Pouhala & Waianae uka; thence
17. North 67° 44' west 4406 feet to a red wood post along Waianae and thence;
18. North 86° 58' West 3339 feet (along an old path called Mookapu) adjoining Waianae uka to a red wood post and thence
19. South 60° 49' West 1677 feet along Waianae uka to a post & thence
20. South 27° 07' West 762 feet across the Kawaieli gulch to a marked stone where Kuhau's house formerly stood; thence
21. South 47° 14' West 8660 feet up a ridge to the summit of Kahapapa thence along the summit of the mountain range which separates this land from Waianae;
22. South 30° 36' East 5709 feet;
23. South 12° 37' West 5190 feet to Puu Kaaa; thence
24. South 3° 4' West 9367 feet along the ridge
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25. South 9° 35' East 4505 feet to Mauna Kapu, thence
26. South 22° 31' West 6219 feet to a red wood post on Mananahua, which bears North 77° 44' West from the Honouliuli Trig. station near Kaulu, and
27. South 63° 16 ½' West 9115 feet along Nanakuli to a pile of stones on the ridge and thence;
28. South 44° 47' west 3200 feet along Nanakuli to the Pili o Kahe, to a marked rock at the end of a stone wall by the road on the shore; thence
29. South 20° 53' East 28,175 feet along the sea to Laeloa or Barber's Point and thence
30. North 82° 56' East 28,641 feet along the sea to a large pile of stones in Oneula; thence
31. [margin note:] Amended by new course See North 41° 97' East 20,920 feet along the land of Puuloa conveyed to Isaac Montgomery by Kekauonohi, September 7th 1849 to a large pile of stones at the Lae o Kahuka;
32. Thence the boundary follows the shore to the point mentioned above where the land of Hoaeae begins, including an area of Forty Thousand, Six hundred and forty (40,640) acres more or less.
43,250 acres including Puuloa
The bearingsgiven in above survey are the true bearings, the mean declination of the magnetic needle being 9 ¼° East.
Fishing Right of Honouliuli in Pearl Loch
For reasons set forth at large in the record of the Commissioner, the Fishing Right is not awarded in the body of the Certificate of boundaries, but the finding of the Commissioner on the testimony presented, as well as by the assent of parties adjacent and in interest is set forth in this supplement as follows, to wit.
The Fishing Right of Honouliuli covers the whole of “West Loch,” with the reservation to Hoaeae (Exhibit the Ili of Auiole), Waikele and Waipio of the fishing opposite each to where the water is “chin deep” to a man, say five and one half feet deep, also cutting off the bight or inlet where the boundary of Waipio and Waikele cuts across from Panau to Kaulu constituting the “Fishing of Hoomakaia.” The channel at the entrance of the Loch, as far up as Pookala point is divided equally between Honouliuli & Halawa.
Note: The map of survey presented [page 251] presented by the petitioner is the one executed by the Professor W.D. Alexander in the year 1873 and the award made conforms to said map.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Honolulu, this 22d day of January A.D. 1874.
Lawrence McCully, commissioner of Boundaries, Oahu.
Honolulu, November 5th 1874
The petitioner in this case further asking that “Puuloa” a part or ili of this land, sold from it to Isaac Montgomery be included in this certificate and the proofs for this purpose being already of record, and this original certificate not yet issued
I do hereby supplement the same, as follows viz.:
Instead of Course 31 as above, read thus
31. Oneula to Puuloa trig Station, at windmill
North 69° 41' East 18720 feet; thence along shore to stone pillar at Kaheeka
North 22° 20' West 10010 feet.
Area of Puuloa 2610 acres
Total area of Honouliuli 43,250 acres
Lawrence McCully, Commissioner of Boundaries
[No. 4, Honouliuli Ahupuaa, District of Ewa, Island of Oahu, Boundary Commission, 43,250 acres, 1874]