TO THE COURT OF A FA. 
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was within the Myo, or town: if beyond it, the 
charge was one additional tical, for every taing, or 
two miles, of land travelling; and at the rate of 
ten ticals for “ every tide,” when the journey was 
by water.* 
Every thing connected with the administration 
of justice seems to be made a subject of extortion. 
The gaolers had their established fees and profits, 
—not only from robbers and murderers, but from 
persons imprisoned for debt, or for political of¬ 
fences, or on suspicion. From gang-robbers or 
murderers, for example, there was extorted, ac¬ 
cording to their supposed means, from one to five 
hundred ticals, with a fee of seven and a half ticals 
to the writer who took down their examination. 
This was for the officers of government; but the 
Taong-m’hu, or chief gaoler and executioner, also 
received a fee of five ticals ; and the keeper of the 
stocks, two. If the prisoner was put in fetters, 
there was an additional charge of five ticals for 
the use of these.f 
A debtor, committed to prison, had to pay to the 
gaoler ten ticals in one hundred upon the amount 
of his debt; and to the messengers, two in one 
hundred. If a suitor recovered a debt from a 
party imprisoned, he had to pay ten in one hun¬ 
dred on its amount to the gaoler. All these fees 
and emoluments were extorted from prisoners un¬ 
der penalty of starvation and bad usage4 
* Captain Alves’ Report. 
f Ibid. 
i ibid. 
