Boundary Commission

1870 010 Christiansen, Henry
Certification: 010
Ahupua`a Puuepa 2, Kealahewa 3
District: Kohala, North
Island Hawaii
Ownership: Christiansen, Henry
Misc: same as Kealahewa 3
Year: 1870
Statistics: 17937 characters 3074 words
Puuepa 2d & Kealahewa 3d Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, Hawaii, Volume A, No. 1, pps 35-41

The Ahupuaas of Kealahewa 3d & Puuepa 2d, situated in North Kohala, Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit

Waimea, April 19th, 1871

By adjournment from the 17th of April 1871, the Commissioner of Boundaries for the 3d Judicial Circuit met at the Court House in Waimea.

Due notice of the hearing of the application of W. C. Jones, attorney for Henry Christiansen for the settlement of the boundaries of Kealahewa 2d [3d?] and Puuepa, situated in the District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit, having been given by advertisement in the Hawaiian Gazette of March 22d 1871 and the Anaokoa of March 23d, 1871, and notice personally served on the owners of adjoining lands as far as known, for the 17th day of April 1871, which hearing was continued until the 19th day of April 1871 at 10 a.m.

Present Henry Christiansen, the applicant, and at his request the hearing was adjourned until the 21st of April. On the 21st of April at 10 o'clock a.m. the hearing was again adjourned at the request of the applicant until the 24th of April at 10 o'clock.

On the 24th of April 1871 the case coming on to be heard. There were present W.C. Jones, attorney for the petitioner, R. H. Stanley, attorney for Akahi and the Hawaiian Government and S.C. Wiltse on the part of J. Wight, one of the Patentees of Puuepa 2d, [a?], Mookini & Kanehalau, patentees of a portion of Kealahewa 3d. W.C. Jones amended his petition by inserting the words No. 2 after Puuepa and changing the figure 2 into 3 after Kealahewa on the sixth line from the top, and by striking figures 2 and 1 on the first line of the second page of petition, and inserting in their place the figures “3” and “2”, and by striking out the words “Kealahewa 3” and inserting the words “by Opihipau” on the second line from the top of page [?] inserting the word “South” on 3d line from top, and by striking out the words “is patentee of” and inserting the word “in” on the fourth line from the [top] and by inserting the figure “2” and the words “Puuepa 1” and by striking out the word Hukiaa” on the sixth line from the top, and by inserting “North” onthe eighth line from the top of second page.

Petition read as amended as follows:

To the Honorable Rufus A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands.
The petition of Henry Christiansen, of North Kohala, in the Island of Hawaii aforesaid, respectfully showeth:

That he is owner of two tracts of land known respectively by the names of Kealahewa 3 and Puuepa No. 2, situated in North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, aforesaid.

That said tracts of land were originally surrendered to the late M. Kekauonohi, in her lifetime by is late Majesty, Kamehameha [III] by the act of the 7th of June A.D. 1848 and partitioned to her by award of the land Commission No. 11216, as apanas Nos. 32 and 3 [33?], [page 36] and dated the 4th day of February A.D. 1855, in which the boundaries of said tracts of lands were not decided and defined; a copy of which said awards herewith shown in exhibit marked “A” and made a part of this petition; That said tracts of land were not surveyed at the time of the surrender and partition as aforesaid, but have since been surveyed according to the ancient land marks and boundaries, known to the kamaainas of the vicinity; a copy of which said survey with the m ....

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.... 71.
Decision
The applicant Henry Christiansen by W.C. Jones, his attorney, having no record testimony to file, I decide, and certify the boundaries of Puuepa 2d, situated in the District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, to be as set forth in the description of boundaries in the following Certificate of Boundaries
Copy
(Stamp)
Land Boundary Commission, No. 10, Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit

Certificate of the boundaries of Puuepa 2d, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit

When the application of Henry Christiansen by W.C. Jones, his attorney, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, as sole Commissioner of Land Boundaries for the Island of Hawaii, 3d Judicial Circuit; I hereby decide and certify the boundaries of the Ahupuaa of Puuepa 2d, situated in the District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, to be as hereinafter set forth.
Given under my hand at Hilo, this twenty-fourth day of May, A.D. 1870
R.A. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, 3d Judicial Circuit

[page 41]
Boundaries of Puuepa 2d (No. 10)
Beginning at the lae Papaakai on the boundary of Puuepa 1st on the sea shore; Thence along said land
South 49° East 6.00 chains; thence
South 63° East 10.00 chains to a stone 1.00 chain makai of the Northern corner of Mookini; thence
South 56½° East 19.00 chains; thence
South 63° East 11.40 chains to a pile of rocks at the South East corner of Pahiha's land; thence
South 66° 40' East 15.57 chains; thence
South 55½° East 24.00 chains; thence
South 54° East 9.26 chains; thence
South 69 3/4° East 17.30 chains; thence
South 51° 50' East 24.60 chains; thence
South 22° East (at 3.00 chains cross Government road to Honoipu) 19.45 chains to angle; thence
South 25° East 28.95 chains to angle; thence
South 40° East 18.86 chains to Mahukona road; thence
South 29½° East 15.10 chains to angle; thence
South 45° East 22.50 chains to a pile of rocks at the corner of the lands of Puuepa 1st & 2d on the boundary of Kukuipahu. Thence along Kukuipahu
South 67° West 2.50 chains to a pile of rocks the corner of the lands Puuepa 2d and Kokoike; thence along Kokoike
North 40° West 39.00 chains; thence
North 34° West 49.00 chains; thence
North 40° West 21.00 chains to a rock marked X on a small hill, South West corner to Kamoelanikai's land on the boundary of Puuepa 2d and Kokoike; thence along Kokoike
North 47 3/4° West 33.60 chains; thence
North 69° West 38.50 chains; thence
North 72° West 20.00 chains to a pile of rocks, mauka South East corner of Pahiha's purchase on Kokoike.

Thence as copied from Royal Patent No. 2534
North 58° West 22.00 chains to the mauka South West corner of Pahiha's land on Puuepa 2d at a point of rocks; thence
North 57° West 41.50 chains to sharp rocks on the mound at the sea shore 2.5 chains to the westward of the harbor of Unuwai; thence along the sea shore to the place of commencement, and containing an area of 281½ acres.
RCA. Lyman, Commissioner of Boundaries, 3d Judicial District

note: Costs in full paid by applicant.
Book of costs lost on Schooner Caroline Mills wrecked at Honokaia, May 1878

[Nos 9 & 10; No 9, Kealahewa 3d Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 257½ acres; 1871; No. 10, Puuepa 2d Ahupuaa, District of North Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Boundary Commission, 281½ acres, 1870]