Foreign Land holdings in the German Marshall Islandsby Dirk HR Spennemann
Property on Bokak
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Size of parcel of land: hectares. whole atoll.
Original acquisition in: 1888 (22 June). The Imperial German Station District Administrator ordered the acquisition of alluninhabited islands, which may be of commercial interest for theJaluit Gesellschaft;
Ownership of property in 1913: Jaluit Gesellschaft
Grundbuch Entry No.: 31 (1913); 37 (1896)
Traders known: uninhabited
Comments: The atoll is also known as Taongi and Gaspar Rico
Sources used:
{1}"Verzeichnis der Grundstücke die im Eigentum von Nichteingeborenen sind." (List of real estate owned by non-natives"). Dated: Jaluit, 24 August 1913. Signed: Scharnbourg (?) for Imperial German Stationchief". German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.
{28} Grundbuch von den Marshallinseln und Nauru. Artikel 1s. Eigenthümer: Die Jaluit Gesellschaft zu Hamburg. Signed by Imperial Commissar Knappe, 20 November 1896.Print out of microfilmed document of unknown provenance, possibly from the T.T.P.I. Archives, Kept on file Alele National Archives, Majuro, RMI. Original most likely from German Colonial document contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, Record Group G-2, Y40.
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