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iife-time, a murder, or has set fïre to buildings or ships, and he then takes traifcorously the 

 promised reward, to the prejudice of the life of this brother, he shall be slain. 



Art. 6. 



If a brother of the Hung-league is sufficiently bad and wicked to steal the money, 

 clofches or possessions of another brother, he shall be punished, if detected, and if there are 

 proofs, with the loss of one ear. 



Art, 7. 



If a brother of the Hung-league, going abroad, has confided his wife and children to another 

 brother, and if this brother, aft er treating them at first with humanity, takes no more care 

 of them, and drives them from his door, and, in this way, causes the wife and children of 

 a brother to suffer the hardships of famine and cold, so this is to begin a thing and not finish 

 it, and, therefore, he will be punished with the loss of one ear. 



Art. 8. 

 (This article is omitted in the original text). 



Art. 9. 

 (This article also, only the punishment of 108 blows is mentioned). 



Art. 10. 



If a brother of the Hung-league, having committed a crime, enters the house of a brother 

 and beseeches him to assist him to escape over the frontiers, and if this brother does not 

 help him to escape over the frontiers, but, on the contrary, prevents him to escape, he wil!, 

 be punished with the loss of one ear. 



Art. 11. 



If a brother Iets a stranger pass for a brother at the time that lodge is held, and intro- 

 duces him into the council-room, so that he may see the formalities and ceremonies, and the 

 secrets leak out in this way, he shall be punished with the loss of his life. 



Art. 13. 



If a brother of the Hung-league, without having got the warrant, or without having 

 obtained orders, or informed the brethern, holcis clandestinely lodge and usurps the funetions ot' 

 Incense-master, he will be punished with the loss of his life. 



Art. 13. 



If a brother of the Hung-league, on the day that a meeting has been appointed, shows the 

 way to the magistrates to seize the President and Master, and causes injury to all the brethern, 

 he shall be punished with 360 heavy blows, and, afterwards, be slain. 



Art. 14. 



If a brother of the Hung-league has got dispatches or letters from the lodgcs of the tw i 



capitals or 13 provinccs, to the purport of convoking the brethern, and il* he does not deli\ 



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