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Kauai notes, George Rowell letter concerning various claims
F.T. 241v13
Weuweu 10953. This also is a resurvey & should be substituted for the original one awarded to him. that survey of Mr. P's is certainly a remarkable one, It professes to be a survey in 2 parts, of his pahale, taro land & kula. But neither of those parts, according to the boundaries there laid down, included any portion of the house lot or one inch of taro land. They include only waste land which, I have left out entirely. I have laid down the survey where it ought to be, covering Weuweu's house lot & the land which he cultivated.
With the exception of this last & the claims of Manini & Pahupu, the Konohiki's luna went with me & was present when I made the surveys of all the claims mentioned above, & no exceptions were taken by him to any of the boundaries as I have given them, but what I hav ....
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.... e wrote out the claims of these persons and put them into the hands of Nuka, who was Konohiki at the time, to forward to the Land Commission.
Nuka, sworn, says, I received the claims of the above-mentioned persons from Kamoa & Hoaka who wrote them and I put them on board a vessel bound to Oahu with orders that they be given to Kalama to present to the Land Commission. I didn't see them after they were sent on board the vessel. I afterwards inquired of Kalama who said he did not receive them. The persons who put in their claims at that time still hold them in undisputed possession.
N.T. 453v10
Honolulu, 23 January 1855
The three land commissioners who settle claims, G.M. Robertson, John Ii and J. Kekaulahao met today in their office in the government building and decided as follows below: [See 3218, 10603]
[Kauai notes found throughout volumes]