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“And it is further agreed and understood between the parties 
hereto, that the Lessee will not alios?/ the use of explosives of any 
hind in the water Immediately adjacent to Johnson Island for the purpose 
of hilling or oapturing fish* 
•’And it is further agreed and understood between the parties 
hereto, that the Lessee will not allow the destruction of birds on or 
the oapturing of birds for removal from said Johns 
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Island or from the 
water immediately adjacent thereto," 
On August 8, 1917, Sdward M. May presented an affidavit to the 
Commissioner of Public Lands to the effect that during June, 1914, in 
company with Oapt* George Piltz, slnoe deceased, he visited #iat is 
known as Johnston alias Cornwallis Island, and »s on the island for one 
day and viewed the entire landscape of the island, he found the island 
to be a reef with two islets, the island was uninhabited and unimproved, 
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and with only slight vegetation, which vegetation consisted of grass, 
and some bushes, similar to those along the shore of the island of Oahu, 
There were no ooooanut trees on the island whatsoever, nor any signs 
of any such trees or the cultivation therefor. 
On August 9, 1917, H« 3# Stafford petitioned the Commissioner 
of Public Lands to determine the lease because the lessee had not planted 
the ooooanut trees and had not paid the taxes on the island as required by 
the leaee. 
