Responsibi- 
ity of holder 
for preserva- 
tion of the 
property. 
Transm is- 
sion of ances- 
tralop prerty. 
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(3) The pur chase of the title of Hajz for the deceased 
parent. (Béla hajt).* 
(4) Expenses of the feast known as © Tamat kampong.” 
This feast takes place once a year at the family grave-yard, 
and is of the nature of a family reconciliatio 
all the year’s little differences between brother and sister, 
parent and child. 
(5) The expenses of a religious education, (ménuntut.) 
This charge is only due in respect of education in a foreign 
country, and is rarely incurred in Rembau. But the departure 
of a tribesman to Kelantan to acquire religious instruction is a 
common event in the state of Naning. 
(6) Assistance towards the cost of the pilgrimage to 
Mecea. 
The holder is further bound to maintain the ancestral 
property intact. This obligation, it is true, is implicit in her 
position as a tenant, but calls for attention as the ground on 
which the daughters base their demands to a division of the 
property during the life-time of their mother. Veneration 
for years is a sentiment perhaps not wholly without the range 
of Rembau experience, but filial affection for an aged relative 
is conspicuously absent from Rembau practice. The advanced 
age of the mother is accepted as proof positive of her inability 
to perform her duty of preserving the property intact, and she 
may be forced to transmit her interest. 
In the event of this transmission, the aged holder is 
commonly allowed to retain in her own name a small plot in 
the ancestral rice swamp to guarantee her burial expenses.” 
She will speak*of such a plot as her shroud (képan):* The 
relative who actually pays those: expenses beccmes thereby 
(1) The purchaser of the title of Haji for a deceased relative gives 
money (minimum §20, usually $40,) to a pilgrim. Arrived at 
Mecca this agent pays the money to the Sheikb, who buys the robe 
and turban of a pilgrim, and deposits them in the mosque at Mecea, 
offering up the customary prayers. 
(2) Instead of reserving the plot, it may pass directly as a gift 
(péembrian) to a relative guaranteeing the burial expenses. 
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