256 MALAY SLAVERY LAW. 
ceive and investigate such applications. 
After a time to be fixed by the Council, say three years, 
slavery should altogether cease, and all claims upon debt- 
bondsmen should lapse. 
* * * * 7S. 
Two codes of laws are known to the Perak Malays, though 
copies of them are extremely scarce among them, the ‘‘ Undang- 
undang ka-Raja-an,’’* or laws of the monarchy (or sovereignty), 
and the Undang-undang Menangkabau,” laws of Menangkabau 
sometimes called “ Undang-undang dua-blas,” the twelve laws. 
The former collection professes to be “the laws of Perak, 
Pahang and Johor,” and contains many provisions identical 
with those of the Malacca code. In it I have found a number 
of regulations regarding slaves and debtors, which I have 
transliterated and translated. 
Some are merely curious as showing from an authentic na- 
tive source what was the condition of a slave in a Malay king- 
dom. Others may be of practical value to those entrusted 
with carrying out such measures for the abolition of slavery 
and debt-bondage as may be decided upon by the Council. 
Nothing of value on the subject of slaves is to be found in 
the Menangkabau laws. 
I trust to be able shortly to send in the translation above 
mentioned as an appendix to this Minute. 
W. E. MAXWELL, 
Assistant Resident, Perak. 
Larut, May 27th, 1882. 
* Also called Undang-undang delapan, because they were the laws admin- 
istered by the Orang Besar Delapan, or the eight Constitutional Chiefs. 
