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Puumoi Ahupuaa, District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume D, No. 5, pps 82-84

In Re boundaries of the Land of Puumoi, District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii
Land Commission Award 6247, Royal Patent 7999,

Application
Hilo, February 7th 1893
Honorable F.S. Lyman, Boundary Commissioner, 3d and 4th Judicial Circuits
Dear Sir:
Acting in behalf of the owners of the Ahupuaa of Puumoi, Land Commission Award 6247, Hilo, Hawaii & in conformity with the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate the settlement of boundaries, ["] I would respectfully request that you fix upon some date, between the 2nd or 3rd week of march next, if convenient to you, as the one when you will site on the case.

I further subjoin the names of adjoining lands & owners thereof so far as known to me & have further to request that you likewise extend notice to them.
I am, Sir,
Yours Respectfully, A.B. Loebenstein
Agent for Onomea Sugar Co., owners of the Ahupuaa of Puumoi

Lands, Owners
Alakahi, Hawaiian government
Mokuoniki, Grant 2003, Apana 1, Onomea Sugar Co.
Mokuoniki, Grant 2691, Heirs of Barenaba
Mokuoniki, Grant 2229, Kalua
Kalaoa, Kalua & Peahi
Kalaoa, Kane
Kalaoa, Waialee
Kalaoa, Namauu
Kalaoa, Kahaoa
Kalaoa, D. Kamai
Papaikou, Onomea Sugar Co.

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In Re Boundaries of Puumoi, Hilo, Hawaii

Court House, Hilo, Hawaii, March 14, 1893, 10 a.m.

Present: W.W. Goodale, Manager of the Onomea sugar Co.; A.B. Loebenstein, George Williams, D.I. Wailani, B. Waialee, Waiono, Namauu, Manumanu, Maikaaloa Kauhi, Keoho, & others.

Application of the Onomea sugar co. for settlement of the Boundaries of the Land Puumoi, read, also Notice published in the Hawaiian Gazette of February 14, 21 & 28, and Kuokoa of February, read in court, for hearing this day.

Evidence
A.B. Loebenstein, sworn, I surveyed the land of Puumoi. It begins at the sea and runs up into the woods; on the South side it adjoins Kalaoa, a gulch called "Leinahapuna" being between; the gulch ends just below the woods, then follow up the old road, which is the boundary of Kalaoa and Puumoi to "Kapuwai," a swamp there, at the head of Kalaoa as certified, and at this point it joins Papaikou. Puumoi runs along Papaikou, on one side, and Alakahi on the other. From Kapuwai I ran an independent course, as we did not know just where to go, and upon reaching a point supposed to be the junction of Papaikou and Alakahi, I set a flag, and triangulated to it from points fixed by the Government, in order to determine where it should strike the Papaikou line, and also had to locate the end of line #11 of the Papaikou Certificate No. 165 - which is a bearing about five miles lo ....