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No. 147.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, August 10, 1899.

The following order from the War Department is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 26, 1899.

The following described tracts of Government lands, situated in Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, were set aside for military purposes and declared military reservations, subject to any outstanding leases thereof, by the President of the United States by order dated July 20, 1899:

I...That tract of land containing 1,344 acres, more or less, situated about 3 miles northwest from Honolulu, and described in Boundary Certificate of Crown Land of Kahauiki, Kona District, Oahu, issued June 16, 1884, by R. F. Bickerton, commissioner of boundaries for the Island of Oahu, and shown on Government Survey Map Reg. No. 1511. Boundaries as follows:

Commencing at a large rock marked with a cross in the stone wall between the fish pond of Weli and Kaikikapu, from which rock the Government survey station Haniki bears N. 68° 28′ E. true 5,348 feet, and Nokauea station bears N. 86° 55′ E. true 8,283 feet, and running

1. N. 26° 15′ E. true 415.8 feet along Moanalua ;

2. N. 11° 5' E. true 1,168.2 feet along Moanalua to stone on mauka side of Government road marked thus , and called Pohakuaukai; thence

3. N. 1° 15' E. true 1,254 feet along Moanalua ;

4. N. 38° 15′ E. true 3,828 feet along Moanalua, passing the hill called Pukapu; thence

5. N. 57° 35′ E. true 4,751 feet along Moanalua up ridge, the top of the ridge being the boundary to place called Mailihahai;

6. N. 56° 6′ E. true 4,003 feet along same top of ridge, being the boundary;

7. N. 77°6′ E. true 1,577 feet along same, the ridge being boundary to place called Hulena;

8. N. 57° 6' E. true 3,460 feet along same up ridge to place called Puakalaea; 9. N. 86° 38′ E true 2,020 feet along same up ridge to point on edge of Kalihi Valley, this point being the head of Kahauiki; thence

10. S. 49° 38′ W. true 9,280 feet along ridge separating Kahauiki from Kalihi Valley, the top of the ridge being the boundary along Kekuapalau, L. C. Award 6450 Apana 9 to Kaunuohua, Pohakaa, Government, Kioi, L. C. Award 803 Apana 12 to A. Adams, Leaha L. C. Award 8559 to C. Kanaina, Koloalu Grant 3090 to Uwe and Kekino, Government Land Palau, L. C. Award 6450, Kupehau Grant 595, Apana 2 to Keoni Holo, Kalaepaa Grant 1894 to Field & Morris. Laelae L. C. Award 3237 Apana 8 to Hewahewa and Kupehau. Grant 595 Apana 1 to point called Kapuukaa ;

thence

11. 8. 29° 34′ W. true 2,996 feet along Kupehan Grant 595 Apana 1, and along Ka luaopalena to point at end of ridge; thence

12. S. 58° 13′ W. true 2,074 feet along Kaluaopalena, across small valley to point

13. S. 61° 29′ W. true 4,137 feet along Kaluaopalena, down slope, passing a short distance NW. of the Government survey station Hauiki to a stone marked with a cross at angle of stone walls on flat;

14. S. 46° 16' E. true 869 feet along Kaluaopalena to stone marked with a cross; thence

15. S. 53° 42′ W. true 1,240 feet along Kaluaopalena to angle of stone wall at path; 16. S. 38° 51′ E. true 242 feet along Kaluaopalena along stone wall; thence 17. 8. 57° 20′ W. true 1,941 feet along L. C. Award 10,498 to Nahinu cross, Govern ment road;

18. S. 19° 15' W. true 251 feet along same;

19. S. 55° 22′ W. true 397 feet along same to angle of fish-pond wall;

20. Then along the wall of Weli Pond to the Island of Mokumoa, and along the mauka side of that island to the wall between Weli and Kaihikapu ponds, and along that wall to initial point; direct distance and bearing being N. 15° 18′ W. true 2,103

feet.

II...That portion of Waianae, Uka, Oahu, containing 14,400 acres, more or less, situated about 19 miles from Honolulu and 9 miles from Pearl Harbor, and described in W. D. Alexander's description of Waianae, as follows:

Beginning at a granite post on the north side of the Kawaieli Gulch, near a hau tree, at the corner of the Waianae uka, Honouliuli, and Pouhala, from which the highest point of Diamond Head bears S. 46° 2′ E. true, and the Government survey trigonometrical station on Maunauna S. 47° 5′ W. true, and the Government survey trigonometrical station on Maili N. 40° 15′ W. true; the boundary runs

1. N. 67° 44′ W. true 4,406 feet along Honouliuli; 2. N. 86° 58′ W. true 3,339 feet along Honouliuli;

3. S. 60° 49′ W. true 1,677 feet along Honouliuli;

4. S. 27° 7′ W. true 762 feet along Honouliuli across Kawaieli gulch, to a concrete post where Kuhaus house stood; thence

5. S. 47° 14′ W. 8,660 feet up a ridge to the summit of Kahapapa; thence along ridge to Kalena Peak, direct bearing and distance being

6. N. 50° 25′ W. true 12,350 feet, a little more or less; 7. N. 71° 40′ E. true 3,850 feet along land of Kalena. the bearings are magnetic.

Thence from this point

8. N. 76° E. 1,716 feet along the border of Kumakalii;
9. N. 681 E. 1,676.4 feet along the border of Kumakalii;

10. N. 8520 E. 2,012 feet along Moohiokea;

11. N. 52° E. 1,901.5 feet along Moohiokea ;

12. N. 661 E. 2,012 feet along Moohiokea; 13. S. 8310 E 330 feet along Moohiokea;

14. S. 77140 E. 254.1 feet along Moohiokea; 15. 8. 70° E. 198 feet along Moohiokea;

16. N. 160 W. 132 feet along Moohiokea;

17. N. 68140 E. 330 feet along the border of Moohiokea ;

18. N. 56° E. 330 feet to a rock at junction of the stream Moohiokea with that

of Kalena at the eastern corner;

19. N. 120 W. 330 feet across the valley; thence

20. S. 78° 30′ W. 3,267 feet along on the Pulei; 21. S. 54° 30′ W. 330 feet;

22. S. 75° W. 13,400 feet to top of ridge, which point is the west boundary of land of Kalena; thence along ridge to western summit of Kaala by true bearings23. N. 7° 55′ W. 4,700 feet;

24. N. 60° 39′ E. 3,474 feet to a sharp peak known as Kamoohanui; thence along the ridge

25. N. 76° 54′ E. 7,080 feet to Puu Pane to a post at the initial point of the Maili Grants where the tree called Ko Palu Koa formerly stood; thence down the side ridge of the ridge called Puu Lehelehe

26. S. 61°30′ E. 7,141 feet to a marked rock at the bottom of the Haleauau gulch called Pohaku o Laie; adjoining grant 629, from which the Maile trigonometrical station bears N. 2° 42′ E. true. From this point the boundary follows the center of the stream along grants in Maile, in Waialua, to its junction with the Kaukonahua stream; thence it follows the center of the Kaukonahua stream along grants in Kemoo as far as the bridge, the survey along the banks on the Waianae side being as follows:

27. From Pahaku o Laie N. 85° 31′ E. 200 feet to a marked rock; thence

28. N. 29° 20′ E. 916 feet to a marked rock, and N. 44° 16' E. 903 feet to a point marked by a buried glass bottle and two triangular pits north and south of it; thence

29. N. 37° 10' E. 1,183 feet along the Pali;

30. N. 76° 56' E. 1,217 feet along the Pali;

31. N. 63° 42′ E. 904 feet along the Pali to a point near the junction of the Haleauau with the Kaukonahua gulch, marked by a buried glass bottle with two triangular pits north and south of it; thence along Kaukonahua gulch

32. S. 17° 3' E. 1,837 feet;

33. N. 39° 49' E. 556 feet along the Pali;

34. S. 28° 9′ E. 631 feet along the Pali to a point near the junction of the Mohiakea with the Kaukonahua gulch, marked by a marked rock, with two triangular pits north and south of it, from which the Maile trigonometrical station bears N. 50° 12′ W. true; thence across the Mohiakea gulch

35. S. 21° 17' E. true 1,251 feet to a rock marked with an arrow mark cut on its top; thence

36. N. 82° 58′ E. 583 feet along the edge of the Kaukonahua gulch ;

37. S. 58° 37′ E. 1,562 feet across a small gulch to a marked rock with two triangular pits north and south of it, a few yards NE, of a clump of Pride of India trees, from which rock the trigonometrical station of Koloea bears S. 59° 20' E. true; thence across the Waikoloa gulch

38. N. 80° 59' E. 1,205 feet to a marked rock near the edge of the Kaukonahua gulch; thence

39. S. 84° 3′ E. 2,856 feet along the Pali;

40. S. 0° 47′ W. 919 feet along the same;

41. N. 81° 9' E. 1,132 feet to a point marked by a buried glass bottle with two triangular pits north and south of it, near the place in the stream called Kahuku, from which the Kokoloea trigonometrical station bears S. 45° 26' E. true; thence 42. S. 75°2 E. 720 feet along Pali;

43. S. 32° 43′ E. 781 feet to a stone post marked 4, from which the Kokoloen

44. N. 67° 29' E. 433 feet to the south end of the bridge over the Kaukonahua River; thence the boundary follows the edge of the Pali on the SW. side of the gulch along Wahiawa to the Kokoloea trigonometrical station, as follows:

45. S. 27° 47' E. 611 feet to a sharp rock near the 20th milestone from Honolulu; thence

46. N. 81° 5' E. 346 feet;

47. S. 5° 42′ E. 527 feet;

48. S. 1° 55′ E. 1,131 feet to a point marked by a buried bottle with two triangular pits north and south of it;

49. N. 47° 5' E. true 778 feet along the edge of the Pali;

50. S. 74° 38′ E. 1,809 feet to a point marked by a redwood post; thence

51. N. 14° 48' E. 1,245 feet to an ancient "Kahua ulu maika," of bowling alley; 52. S. 60° 35' E. 705 feet to a concrete post at a place called Kokoloea, near the 19th milestone from Honolulu, which is a trigonometrical station of the Government survey, from which the Maile trigonometrical station bears N. 55° 29′ W. and the Maunauna trigonometrical station S. 57° 37' W.; thence

53. N. 72° 50' E. 4,312 feet to a redwood post near the edge of the gulch, near a fishing place called Paka; thence

54. N. 67° 1' E. 15,494 feet along Wahiawa to a concrete post near a large koa tree; thence

55. N. 82°15′ E. 24,659 feet along south side of the Wahiawa gulch to the summit of the dividing ridge to the boundary of Koolau; thence along the dividing ridge which separates this land from Kahana in Koolau-loa;

56. S. 44° 55' E. 8,135 feet to the boundary of Waipio; thence

57. S. 81° 20′ W. 32,176 feet along the north side of the Waipio gulch to a post and two triangular pits;

58. S. 61° 47′ W. 1,901 feet to a point marked by a buried bottle between two pits near the edge of the Waipio gulch on the upper boundary of Gr. 6 in Waikakalaua; thence

59. N. 37° 29′ W. 1,734 feet along Gr. 6 to a point marked by a buried gin bottle, with three triangular pits pointing to the place;

60. S. 63° 59′ W. true 3,036 feet to a point 10 feet west of the Hala tree marked by a buried bottle between two triangular pits, from which the Kokoloea station bears N. 86° 10' W.;

61. S. 69° W. true 5,808 feet along Gr. 6 to a point marked in the same manner as the last corner; thence

62. S. 59° 15' W. true 1,082 feet along Gr. 6 to a concrete post from which Kokoloea trigonometrical station bears N. 55° 10′ W.;

63. S. 8° 5' E. 6,098 feet to south end of Waikakalaua bridge, along Gr. 6; thence 64. S. 1° 56′ W. 896 feet to south corner of Gr. 6;

65. S. 41° 6' W. 1,253 feet along Waipio R. P. 5732;

66. S. 27° 41' W. 1,946 feet along east side of Waipio gulch ;

67. S. 2° 12′ W. 896 feet along east side of Waipio to the stone post;

68. N. 49° 43′ W. 1,529 feet across the gulch along Pauhala R. P. 4486 to a flat

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