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Chapter II. 
Section 2, The Tribal Officer (Orang Besar.) 
The Orang Bésar, or officers in the tribe are divided into 
two grades :— 
(a) those who are officials of the Undang (pégawai 
pada Undang) and supports of the tribal chief (“ tongkat 
sokong pada lémbaga’’). 
(b) those who are merely minor officials of the “Lémbaga’ 
(“bésar dalam anak buah.’’y 
The office of orang bésar, generally Known as © bésar,” is 
a direct creation, in the case of grade (a), of the Undang acting 
on his own initiative or on representation of the lémbaga and 
waris of a tribe; in the case of grade (6) of lémbaga. 
‘Bésar’ of the second grade hold their office for. life or 
until dismissal—but the office dies with them. 
The ‘Bésar’ who is an officer of the Undang (grade a) may 
hold an appointment created for and dying with him, or may 
be in enjoyment of an office forming part of the nlneriames 
(pésaka) of the tribe—if the undang have definitely so pro- 
nounced when sanctioning the creation (tanaman) of the title. 
The inherited office is never confined to one family (pérut) but 
rotates (dbérgilir) through all the families comprised in the 
tribe. 
A special creation (tanaman) by the Undang which has 
lapsed at the death of the first recipient may however be re- 
newed, by consent of the Undang, to some one definite appli- 
cant, on presentation of two offerings of rice and cakes (bokor) 
by the wars (relations on the mother’s side) of the first 
holder. 
The number of orang bésar in any given tribe is hence 
uncertain and inconstant. The bésar of grade (a) ranks—as 
an officer of the Undang—above the elder (chu bapa) in the 
tribe, but the elder takes precedence of the lesser bésar—the 
officer of the lémbaga. 
(1) vide Appendix IV. 
R.A. Suc., No. 56, s1910, 
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Creation cf 
the Offic. 
