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Royal Patent Number(RP)1944 LCA Number:00387*O
Patentee: Clarke, Ephraim W., ABCFM Island:Oahu
District:Kona TMK
Ahupua'aHonolulu IliKawaiahao
Statistics: 4820 characters 771 words
No. 1944, Clarke, Ephraim W., Kawaiahao Ili, Honolulu Ahupuaa,  District of Kona, Island of Oahu, Volume 8, pps. 59-60 [RP Reel 4, 01431-1432.tif]

NO. 1944
ROYAL PATENT,
UPON CONFIRMATION OF THE LAND COMMISSION

Whereas, the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles have by their decision awarded unto The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, an estate of Freehold less than Allodial, in and to the land hereafter described, and whereas by Royal Patent No. 1600 of this series, said land was confirmed to said Board in fee simple and whereas by authority of said Board a  new Patent has been requested and authorized to be granted to Ephraim W. Clarke for the land hereinafter described, annulling so much of said Patent No. 1600 as relates to the said land

Therefore, Kamehameha, by the Grace of God, King of the Hawaiian Islands by this Royal Patent, makes known unto all men, that he has, for him ....

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.... of August 1853 as is included [illegible] of Part 1, Section [illegible] See 1 and No. 2 of this Statute.

Containing    - 78 64/100 -   acres, more or less; excepting and reserving to the Hawaiian Government, all mineral or metalic mines of every description.

To have and to hold the above granted land in Fee Simple, unto the said Ephraim W. Clarke, 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 hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Hawaiian Islands to be affixed, this 28 day of April 1855.

[Signed] Kamehameha
V. K. Kaahumanu
Keoni Ana
pp. L. Kamehameha
pp Kamehameha

[Royal Land Patent No. 1944, Clarke, Ephraim W., Kawaiahao Ili, Honolulu Ahupuaa,  District of Kona, Island of Oahu, 3 apana, 78.64 Acres, 1855]