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Royal Patent Number(RP)6885 LCA Number:07715*H
Patentee: Kamehameha, Lota Island:Hawaii
District:Kau TMK3-9-6-01, 02
Ahupua'aPunaluu Ili
Statistics: 7481 characters 1290 words
No. 6885, Kamehameha, Lota, Punaluu Ahupuaa, Kau District, Island of Hawaii; Volume 25, pps. 83-84 [rp Reel 13, 905-906.tif]

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No. 6885
Royal Patent.
Upon Confirmation by the Land Commission

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to quiet Land Titles have by their decision awarded unto Lota Kamehameha, Land Commission Award 7715, Apana 14 & 15, an estate of Freehold less than Allodial, in and to the land hereafter described, and whereas Ruth Keelikolani, the present occupier of the Ahupuaa of Punaluu, by her attorney in fact, W.P. Leleiohoku, has applied to the Minister of the Interior for a Royal Patent for the said land, and has filed a certificate of the boundaries of the said Ahupuaa from the Commissioner of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii. And whereas the Government commutation thereon was relinquished by a resolution of the Privy Council.

Therefore, Lunalilo Kalakaua, by the Grace of God, King of the Hawaiian Islands, by this Royal Patent, makes known to all men, that he has, for himself and for his successors in office, this day granted and given absolutely, in Fee Simple, unto Lota Kamehameha all that certain piece of land situate at Kau, known as the Ahupuaa of Punaluu, in the Island of Hawaii, and described as follows:

Commence at P cut in the rock at end of point at the sea shore on the boundary
between this land and Mohokea iki and running ....

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.... br />South 54 1/2° East 10.50 chains along edge of aa to a pile of stones;
South 70 1/4° East 25.00 chains along Royal Patent No. 828 [Land Grant Patent 828];
South 47° East 8.00 chains along Royal Patent No. 828;
South 7 1/4° East 16.26 chains along Royal Patent No. 828;
South 56° East 13.52 chains along Royal Patent No. 828 to the end of a point of rock at the seashore; thence along the seashore in bent lines
North 17° West 11.62 chains;
North 25 3/4° East 15.15 chains along the sand beach; [BC record says 21 3/4°]
South 57° East 11.78 chains along the aa;
North 55 1/2° East 62.25 chains along the aa to the point of commencement.

Containing an area of 5360 Acres, more or less, excepting and reserving to the Hawaiian Government all mineral or metallic mines of every description.

To Have and to Hold the above granted Land in Fee Simple, unto the said Lota Kamehameha, his heirs and Assigns forever, subject to taxes to be from time to time imposed by the Legislative Council, equally upon all Landed Property held in Fee Simple.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the Hawaiian Islands to be affixed, this 26th day of March, 1877.

/signed/ Kalakaua R [Rex]
By the King
The Minister of the Interior
J. Mott-Smith

[Royal Land Patent No. 6885, Kamehameha, Lota, Punaluu Ahupuaa, Kau District, Island of Hawaii; 5360 Acres, 1877]