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the text of the Dutch treaties of 1760 and 1819 A.D. and the 
British treaty of 1833 A.D. But the precedence of the baroh 
division has also left its traces in the heavier marriage fees 
payable in certain of the baroh tribes,’ in the comparatively 
petty function of the four great Darat chiefs at the election of 
the Undang, * and in the richer ceremonial prescribed at the 
buvial of one of “the Four” in the low country.” 
Neither the council of ‘the Four,” nor the later institution 
of ‘the Hight,’”’ possessed, as such, any right of interference 
with the members of the second sroup of chiefs— ‘the Twelve.”’ 
Only nine chiefs are now recognised as forming the group 
known as. The Twelve,” and it has been held that the title—- 
“The Twelve’ —refers not to the chiefs but tothe tribes. This 
theory is open to several objections. The group of “ the 
Twelve’ is admittedly a separate classification to the Hight: ” 
it does not include all the twelve tribes: the Séri Lémak, Paya 
Kumboh and Tiga Nenek tribes provide chiefs for the group of 
“the Hight” only ; again the contrast between the Hight” and 
“the Twelve” is unexplained by this theory for each of “the 
Hight” is, equally with each of ‘the Twelve,’ chief-—of someone 
of thetwelvetribes forming the Rembau confederation. There is 
little doubt that the title refers to the number of chiefs as the group. 
Prior to the Rawa invasion of Rembau at the end of the 18th 
century this group included also the Dato’ Mengkota, head of 
the Séri Mélenggang tribal settlement at Kendong and the 
Dato’ Dagang, a chief of the Séri Mélenggang Ménangkabau 
trioe. These two chiefs aided the invader and were 
punished by exclusion from the group of “the Twelve.’ The 
twelfth member of the group was To’ Lela Raja—chief of the 
Tiga Batu tribe swbélah baroh. By settling in the Légong 
valley the Tiga Batu immigrants owed allegiance to the Dato’ 
(1) vide Appendix IV. 
(2) chap ITI. sec. 6 sub undang. 
(3) At the funeral of a Darat chief no money is scattered on the 
road to the tomb, and no white cloth is spread on the path as at the 
funeral of one of the 4 sablah baroh. 
(4) vide ante chap. I. 
Rk: A. Soc., No. 56, 1910. 
