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[1813. 
IV. For stealing from a garden, either whipping or 
a term of labour for the person in whose garden the 
robbery was committed. 
V. For robbing from a field in autumn, double 
restoration. 
VI. For allowing cattle to feed near growing corn, 
if they go into that field, and eat or destroy the grain, 
the proprietor of the cattle to pay double the loss that 
may have been sustained. 
VII. If a Bushman, Coranna, or any stranger be 
murdered, the murderer shall receive the same pu- 
nishment as for murdering a Griqua. 
VIII. Going upon a commando for plunder, to be 
punished by a term of labour, and the property taken 
to be restored to its owners. 
IX. If a Bushman, Coranna, or other stranger, 
commit murder, theft, or any other crime within the 
limits of the Griqua country, the punishment to be the 
same as if he had been a Griqua. 
X. That no person shall take it upon him to punish 
another, whatever injury he may have received from 
him, but must bring his charge against that person, 
and prove it by witnesses before the court, which 
shall determine what is fit to be done. 
