1883.] : 641 (Phillips, 
information to the five lords jointly, and after consultation with the chief 
lord there were other five who carried into execution what the five had 
decreed. 
There were other laws in their Tianguez or fairs which are as follows : 
If the son of the lord turned out a gambler and a swindler (tahur), 
and sold his father’s possessions or other portion’ of land, he was 
secretly choked to death, and if he was a macegual or fisherman, he 
was sold into slavery. Likewise, if one stole magueys to the number 
of twenty to make honey, they should pay as many ma~véas as the judges 
should ordain, and if the party did not own sufficient or if there were 
more magueys, he or they became a slave or slaves. Whoever should 
borrow mantas asa loan, and neglect to repay them, should be a slave, 
A. theft of a fishing net was to be paid for in mantas,and if the party did 
not own them he became a slave. If one stole a canoe or vessel in which 
people went, he should pay the value of the canoe in mantas, and if he 
had not enough he became a slave. If a man lay with a woman slave 
who was under age he became a slave also with her, and if she became 
sick and died, he became a slave, and if she did not die he paid for her cure. 
If any one brought a slave to Mscapucrico, where there was a slave 
mart, and the purchaser gave mantas for him, and the seller unfolded 
them and was content with them, if afterward he rued his bargain he 
should return the mantas, but the slave became free. If any one did not 
grow up to natural size, and the relations sold him, and it was known after- 
wards, when he had come of age, the judges should order as many 
mantas to be paid as to them seemed fit to give his owner, and the slave 
became free. If a slave woman fled away and was sold to another per- 
son, upon its being discovered, she should return to her master and the 
price be lost that was paid for her. 
Ifa man lie with a slave, and she dies, being pregnant, he shall become 
the slave of her master, but if she conceive and bring forth a child, the 
child is free, and shall belong to its father. If any conspire to sell a free- 
man for a slave, and the fact become known, all who took part in the 
affair shall become slaves, and one of them shall be given to the pur- 
chaser, and the others be divided between the mother of the person wrong- 
fully enslaved, and the informer who discovered the transaction. Any per- 
sons who administer potions with intent to procure death shall be strangled 
for the same, but if the person murdered was a slave, the murderer 
shall become the slave of his master. If any one shall steal as much as 
twenty arribas of maize, he shall die for it, but if less he shall be redeemed 
by a ransom. 
He who steals unripened maize shall be beaten to death with rods. He 
who steals the yetecomatl, a species of gourd fastened with thongs, and 
worn on the head with tufts of feathers, such as the lords wear, sprinkled 
with green tobacco, he who steals it shall be garroted to death. Me who 
“steals a chalchui, which was a string with certain computations forbid- 
den to be owned by men of low degree, shall be stoned to death in the 
