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Art. 11. 



After having entered the Hung-league, you must adopt the name of Hong, and you must 

 then be (attached) like hands and feet; but, as wealth and indigence are unequally divided, 

 and death and life have a fixed time; so, when the parents of a brother have died, or a 

 brother has died himself, and there is no money to bury the corpse properly, we all must 

 come together and deliberate about it: he who has much, may give much, he who has 

 little, may give little; but all of us ought to unite our forces. When other people see this, 

 they will remark the charity of the Hung-league. 



He who does not keep this command — may he perish in the deep mountains , or on wild 

 peaks, and be buried without coffm or shroud! Besides, aecording to law, he will be punished 

 with 72 blows. 



Art. 12. 



After having entered the Hung-league, you have pledged yourself before heaven: so do not 

 say that providence does not avenge, for three feet above our heads are invisible spirits. 



You must teil your age aecording to truth, and not give out untruth for truth, and, so, 

 deceive the five founders. "VVhen you have returned, you shall not pray before other altars 

 or in other temples for absolution from your present oaths and vows. 



He who does not keep this command, is a traitor and perjurer; may he be hacked in thou- 

 .sands of pieces and perish! Besides, both his ears will be cut off; he shall be cast out of the 

 brotherhood, and never be allowed to enter it again. 



Art. 13, 



After having entered the Hung-league, you are bound by a bloody oath. You have become 

 one gall and one heart (with the brethern.) 



So, when you see that a brother quarrels or fights with other people, you ought to ad- 

 vance, and examine fairly. If the other people are in the wrong you must, certainly, help him 

 with all your might and strength; but if the brother is in the wrong, you must exhort him 

 to desist : in this way the equity of the brotherhood will appear. You shall on no account 

 pretend not to have known it. 



He who does not keep this command, beguiles indeed his own heart, and deceives himself. 

 Most surely he shall not be happy or prosperous, and his children will not live in harmony! 



Art. 14. 



After having entered the Hung-league, you ought to remember the oath sworn in the Flower- 

 pavilion. 



Amongst the members of our brotherhood, some are functionaries, others are vagabonds: each 

 of us has some employment, but we are not all of e qu al rank. So, if fire is set to a place, 

 or robbery is perpetrated, or a ship is plundered, or highway-robbery is committed, we ought 

 to look well to the flags or signals before we set to work; for brethern are not allowed to act 

 wantonly, and violate the harmony between hands and feet. 



