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If he admitted his tribe’s liability to another tribe he was 
bound under pain of deposition, to enforce a payment in the 
same way. 
No transfer or mortgage of landed property trenching 
on the direct female entail is valid to-day without his 
sanction. The procedure ona transfer (stated in saying X XIII) 
was carried out by the lémbaga of each of the contracting 
parties. They personally measured the land, beat the bounds, 
and saw the purchase money paid, and were entitled for their 
services to a fee of 20 rupia, known as the adat tukul lantak. 
The absorption of this fee into the Government :charge for 
demarcation and registration provides the lémbaga of to-day 
with a cherished grievance. 
(3) Pukul Lantak=hammer in the posts, 
R. A. Soc., No. 56, 1910. 
