REMBAU HISTORY, ETC. AB 
In practice, then, the election of a lémbaga depends 
on the Undang ; with the Undang too lies the dismissal of the 
lémbaga from office. As the saving states, the Jlémbaga’s 
existence lies on the knees of the Undang (hidup mati kapada 
Undang). But the Undang may not follow his caprice in 
exercising his power of dismissal. He is not only bound, in 
considering an alleged offence, to summon the Hight,’’ whose 
sympathies necessarily le with their fellow-chief, but he 
must show cause for holding that the /émbaga has been guilty 
of an offence for which custom prescribes dismissal as the 
penalty. 
These offences fall into two classes (1) offences against the 
tribe—involving dereliction of duty. (2) Offences against the 
Undang, involving trespass on the prerogative of the Undang. 
The first class contains four items: harbouring and false 
accusation; causing wrongful loss and permitting wrongful 
gain; infliction of a disgrace on the tribe; detection in 
unlawful * intercourse. 
The second class comprises the six pantang Undang. 
Offences of this class bear two aspects, first as tabooed acts ; 
then as offences against the custom (adat). Treason 
(méndérhaka) in its seccndary aspect, is the crime of acting 
against the proper function of the offender-—the lémbaga—in 
open opposition to the Undang. This was the crime of To’ 
Bangsa Balang, Haji Abdul-Karim, when in 1871 A.D. he 
supported Haji Mustapa in his fight with Haji Sahil for the 
Undangship. Conviction of a tabooed act involved, under 
Malay rule, not only dismissal from office but confiscation of 
all property. Saying No. XXI states at length the ceremonies : 
whereat a lémbaga’s attendance is required: weddings and 
marriages ; feasts and festivals (such as the Hari Raya feasts) ; 
incision and boring of the ears: circumcision and confirmation; 
on a formal summons; on a present of rice borne of two in the 
day time; on a present of cakes borne of four at night. He 
(1) v. Saying XXXVITT. App. TI. 
(2) v. Saying XXXII. v. alsosub Undang, chap. II. § 5. 
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