54 RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 
States have their Rajas, 
And Provinces their Penghulus, 
Kach tribe its Lembaga 
And each family its elder. 
Every married man has his wife’s 
Relations to assist him to his rights, 
And strangers go to the chief whose duty 
It is to attend their affairs ; 
As also theirs is a place to tie up their prahus. 
Thus is defined, in reverse Bree the right of Appeal and the 
Immigration Department. 
A well ordered State under the Menangkabau code—Adat 
Perpateh—should be provided with a properly defined wharf, 
where there are berths for vessels of different nations. There 
should be a proper Minister to look after foreigners; he may be 
called Dato’ Dagang, or there may be four office holders, called 
Dato’ Dagange yang ber-ampat abbreviated to “To Ampat. 
The Court of first instance for a married man is the family 
of his wife; he having left his own home and gone to live with 
his wife, whose mother he accepts in the place of his own; in 
other words, he is of one mother (Sa-manda) with his wife after 
he has married. Ifa man does not obtain satisfaction from his 
wife’s relations, he as, well as all other unmarried people and 
married women, take their complaintsto the elder of their own ~ 
particular section (perut) of their own tride, to the Ibu-bapa 
(literally mother-father) corrupted to Bwapa; from thence the 
appeal is to the Lembaga (called Tua or old man) of the whole 
tribe or Suku; the next court is thatof the Penghulu or Und- 
ang; andthe last appeal is to the Raja of the State, called in 
accordance with old custom Yang-di-per-Tvan, which title has 
been shortened to Yam-Tuan. 
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Lembaga ber-sekat, 
Undang: ber-ka-lantasan. 
