TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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ment by the governor. It was afterwards ascer¬ 
tained that he had paid a large bribe. The second 
culprit was shot, and at the same moment the re¬ 
maining five decapitated. 
Of the regular expenses of justice, independent 
of bribes to judges, and fees to the pleaders, I give 
the following specimen, taken from a very able re¬ 
port on the province of Bassein, by Captain Alves, 
its civil superintendent, and made to myself when 
Commissioner in Pegu. 
A Thu-gyi, or chief of a township or village, is 
held responsible for any robbery committed within 
his jurisdiction, if he cannot secure the robbers, or 
trace them to some other jurisdiction. In this case, 
he must not only make good the property taken, 
but pay the following charges on the amount: A 
charge of fifty in one hundred, called Kombo, one- 
half of which goes to the Myo-wun and members 
of the provincial court, and one-half to the King ; 
a charge of ten in one hundred, called Ti-wun, 
one-half of which goes to the Myo-wun, and the 
other to the Queen’s Minister; a charge of twenty- 
five in one hundred, which goes to the writers of 
the provincial court; and one of twelve and a half 
in one hundred, for the messengers of the court. 
Besides these, a sum of two ticals* is paid to a 
person called the Aong-deng, and another of half 
a tical to a person called the Athao-bo; officers 
* The tical, alluded to in the following statement, contains 
ten in one hundred of alloy. 
