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Foreign Land holdings in the German Marshall Islandsby Dirk HR Spennemann
Property on Aur
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Size of parcel of land: 13 ar 40m2.
Original acquisition in: 1904 (18 July) by the Jaluit Gesellschaft.
Ownership of property in 1913: unknown, probably local
Grundbuch Entry No.: 36 (1893)
Traders known:
Comments:
Sources used:
{29} Grundbuch von den Marshallinseln und Nauru. Artikel 1w. Eigenthümer: Die Jaluit Gesellschaft zu Hamburg. Signed by Imperial Commissar Domnick, 18 July 1904. 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.
Size of parcel of land: unknown.
Original acquisition in: unknown by unknown; A map published in 1879 by Friedrichsen shows that there was a trading station on the atoll. It is likely that the land had been leased.
Ownership of property in 1913: local
Grundbuch Entry No.: no entry
Traders known:
Comments:
Sources used:
Friedrichsen, I. 1879, Karte der Marshall Inseln. Auf der Basis der englischen Admiralitätskarte No. 983 nach den von J.Kubary auf Ebon eingezogenen Erkundigungen und nach Angaben des Capitän Mellen.Hamburg:Friedrichsen & Co.
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