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KAU FOREST RESERVE. 



At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 

 and Forestry, held on June 20th, the reports of the Committee 

 on Forestry and of the Superintendent of Forestry on the pro- 

 posed Kau Forest Reserve on Hawaii, were approved, and a 

 resolution in regard thereto adopted. Following the usage of 

 the Board the resolution and reports are published herewith. 



RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO THE PROPOSED KAU FOREST RESERVE. 



Resolved, That all those certain lands in the District of Kau, 

 Island of Hawaii, bounded in general terms as follows : 



Lying on the lower southern slope of ]\Iauna Loa, bounded on 

 the west and north by the land of Kahuku, on the east by the 

 forest fence erected within the land of Kapapala by the Hawaiian 

 Agricultural Company, and on the south by a line drawn across 

 the various lands back of Pahala and Hutchinson plantations, at 

 approximately the lower edge of the existing forest, and con- 

 taining an approximate area of 75,000 acres, as recommended by 

 a report of the Committee on Forestry, dated June 6, 1906, based 

 on a report of the Superintendent of Forestry, dated March 31, 

 1906, both of which reports are on file in the office of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry, the boundaries of which proposed 

 reservation more particularly appear by and on a map and de- 

 scription made in ^lay, 1906, by the Hawaiian Government Sur- 

 vey Department, which said map is on file in said Survey Depart- 

 ment and marked "Registered Map No. 2361," a copy of which 

 said map and description are now on file in the office of this 

 Board and made a part thereof, be approved as a forest reserve, 

 to be called the Kau Forest Reserve. 



Resolved, That the Board recommend to the Governor that 

 the government lands lying within the boundaries of the said 

 proposed Kau Forest Reserve be set apart by him, subject to 

 vested rights therein, after the hearing required by law, as the 

 Kau Forest Reserve. 



