292 MALAY SLAVERY LAW... 
[To the foregoing quotations from the Malay Code found in Perak, may be 
added the following extracts from a translation of ‘‘The Malayan laws of the 
Principality of Johor, published in 1855 in Vol. IX of the Journal of the 
Indian Archipelago. There is no indication as to the source from which the 
Malay MS. was obtained.] 
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TRANSLATION OF THE MALAYAN LAWS OF THE PRINCIPA- 
LITY OF JOHOR. 
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Miring and Borrowing. 
If a free man employ the slave of another with the know- 
ledge of his master and the master receive the profits of the 
slave’s labour, such master shall be answerable for any pro- 
perty entrusted to the slave. 
If a man employ the slave of another without the master’s 
knowledge, the master shall not be answerable for any loss 
incurred by the slave’s misconduct or neglect, nor shall the 
slave himself be liable to any punishment. 
If a slave be hired to climb a tree with the knowledge and 
consent of his master, and he fall and be killed or frac- 
ture a limb, it shall be deemed a misfortune only and no resti- 
tution shall be made by his employer. 
If one borrow a slave of another and the master shall have 
said “for what purpose do you borrow your servant’s slave’’ 
and the borrower have answered “ for such and such a purpose,” 
in this case he who borrowed shall make restitution to the 
amount of two-thirds of the slave’s value. | 
If a man borrow a slave for the purpose of climbing trees 
and say to the master “peradventure he may be killed or 
‘ maimed”? and the master shall have replied “if he be killed 
‘‘let him be killed and if he be maimed let him be maimed,”’ 
and this slave be killed, the borrower shall make restitution to 
the extent of one-third of his value only, or in the event of 
his being wounded or hurt, defray the expense of curing him 
and restoration to his master. 
If a man hire the slave of another and employ him in diving 
