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Royal Patent Number(RP)8089 LCA Number:08515*H
Patentee: Ana, Keoni Island:Hawaii
District:Hilo TMK3-2-2-09, 10
Ahupua'aKukuau 1 Ili
Statistics: 8136 characters 1347 words
No. 8089, Ana, Keoni, Kukuau 1 Ahupuaa, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Volume 32, pps 59-61 [rp Reel 15, 01398-01340.tif]

Royal Patent No. 8089 Upon Confirmation of Award by Land Commissioners,

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to quiet Land Titles, did, by their decision, award to Keoni Ana Land Commission Award No. 8515, Apana 2 an Estate of Freehold less than Allodial, in and to the Land hereafter described, and whereas

Proper application having been made to the Minister of the Interior by J.O. Carter, Attorney in fact for Mrs. A. Amelia Richardson, the present owner of the Ahupuaa of Kukuau 1 in the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, for a Patent of the hereinafter described land a Certificate of Boundaries defining the same having been duly filed and whereas the Government Commutation therein was relinquished by Resolution of the Privy Council adopted June 22nd 1850.

Therefore, Liliuokalani, by the Grace of God, Queen of the Hawaiian Islandsthe Government of the Republic of Hawaii, by this Royal Patent makes known to all men that she it has for herself and for her successors in Office this day granted and confirmed absolutely, in Fee Simple, unto Keoni Ana, all that certain piece of the land situate at Kukuau 1 in the District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii, and described as follows:

[Note: the following survey was cancelled in 1903 and reissued differently; see BC report for Kukuau 1]

Commencing at the Southwest corner of this land at ....

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.... h 29° 00' West 1191 feet, Thence up an opening in the woods  (now mostly grown up)
South 14° 16' East 492 feet;
South 10° 21' West 677 feet;
South 12° 43' West 473 feet;
South 46° 35' West 312 feet;
South 47° 35' West 919 feet;
South 45° 20' West 734 feet;
South 51° 30' West 1876 feet;
South 59° 24' West 189 feet;
South 65° 00' West 821 feet;
North 73° 00' West 472 feet;
North 87° 00' West 400 feet to blazed ohia tree, at the end of this opening (a dry tree still standing) and foreign yellow ginger; Thence through the woods still along land of Waiakea;
South 58° 30' West 23,968 feet; thence
North 83° 50' West 27,650 feet to point of commencement and containing an area of 4840 acres
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Containing 4840 Acres, more or less; excepting and reserving to the Hawaiian Government all mineral and/or metallic mines of every description.

To have and to hold the above granted land in Fee Simple unto the said Keoni Ana, his heirs and assigns forever, subject to the 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 hereunder set myThe President of the Republic of Hawaii has hereto set Governor of the Territory of Hawaii has hereto set his hand and caused the Great Seal of the Hawaiian Islands Republic to be affixed, this [left blank] day of [left blank], A.D. 1899

By the Queen