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XL That no person, who is to be a judge in any cause, 
is to receive a present, directly or indirectly, from any 
of the parties whose cause is to be tried before him. 
XII. In order to evade rule eleventh, should a 
person promise to give at a future time a present to 
any of the judges who are to try his cause, that person 
shall be fined, and if utiable to pay the fine, shall be 
adjudged to give a term of labour in proportion to the 
value of the fine. 
XIII. That all persons flying from justice in the 
colony, in consequence of some crime they have com- 
mitted and coming among them, shall be delivered up 
to such persons as may be sent in pursuit of them. 
XIV. That every person who shall endeavour to 
prevent the execution of the laws, shall be punished 
as the court shall judge proper. 
They likewise resolved, that nine magistrates should 
be chosen to act as judges at Griqua town, and one 
at each of the two principal out-posts, who is to judge 
in smaller cases, but others are to »be remitted to the 
judges at Griqua town. 
That the two captains, Bern and Kok, with Messrs. 
Anderson and Janz, be a court of appeal. 
That the limits of their country be marked out in 
the course of one month, and the magistrates chosen. 
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