ON MINES AND MINERS IN KINTA, PERAK. 309 
10. No weapon may be brought within the four posts of 
the smelting house which immediately surround the furnace. 
(Hukum pawang, $1.25.) 
11. Coats may not be worn within this space. (Hukwm 
pawang, 81.25.) 
12. These posts may not be cutorhacked. (Hukum pawang, 
one slab of tin.) 
13. Ifaminer returns from work, bringing back with him some 
tin sand, aud discovers that somebody has eaten the cold rice 
which he had left at home, he may claim from the delinquent 
one karong of tin sand. The pawang adjudicates in the matter. 
14. An earthenware pot (priok) which is broken must be 
replaced within three days. (Hukum pawang, one karong of 
tin sand.) 
15. No one may cross a race in which a miner is sluicing 
without going some distance above him, up stream; if he does 
he incurs a penalty of as much tin sand as the race contains 
at the moment, payable to the owner of the race. The pawang 
adjudicates. 
16. A kris, or spear, at a mine, if without a sheath, must 
be carefully wrapped in leaves, even the metal setting (simpez) 
must be hidden. Spears may only be carried at the “trail.” 
(Hukum pawang, uncertain. ) 
17. On the death of any miner, each of his comrades on 
that mine pays to the pawang one chupak (penjuru) of tin sand. 
It will be noticed that the amcunt of the majority of these 
fines is $12.50; this is half of the amount of the fine which, 
under the Malay customary land, a chief could impose on a 
raayat for minor offences. It is also the amount of the cus- 
tomary dowry in the case of a marriage with a slave or with 
the widow or divorced wife of a ra‘tyat. 
The Malay miner has peculiar ideas about tin and its pro- 
perties; in the first instance he believes that it is under the 
protection and command of certain spirits whom he considers 
it necessary to propitiate ; next he considers that the tin itself 
