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REASONS FOR EXCLUDING WITNESSES 
Persons excluded. 
Reasons for Exclusion. 
20 
Adulterers. 
Because when convicted of the offence of a- 
dullery are disgraced by having their heads sha¬ 
ved, being dressed in a fish net, and having 
bunches of scarlet flow ers stuck above their ears 
J 
and then being gonged or drummed through the 
town. 
21 
Clerks. 
Because they will do any thing for money. 
22 
Fatherless children, 
or rather children who 
cannot tell w ho their 
Not explained. . 
father was. 
23 
Persons who can¬ 
not count or reckon 
up figures to 10. 
Do. 
24 
Those who arc ig¬ 
norant of the five and 
llio eight offences. 
Obvious enough. 
25 
Those who cannot 
discriminate betwixt 
good and evil in so¬ 
ciety. 
Do. 
2G 
Persons who speak 
confusedly. 
Obvious. 
27 
Pei sons engaged in 
For the same cause as women performers 
stage performances. 
are excluded. 
28 
Persons who are not 
suffi ci e n t! yd n s true ted 
in the duties of file as 
lobe admissable into 
Obvious as in Nos, 24 and 25. 
29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
llie order or Priests. 
Persons who can¬ 
not read. 
Tumblers. 
Peisons wbo give 
medicine to create a- 
bortion. 
Undutiful children 
who give abusive lan¬ 
guage or beat their 
Parents. 
Hermaphrodites. 
Not explained* The evil of such a strange 
exception is not Felt much in Siam since almost 
all can read. 
The same perhaps as for Nos. 23 and 27. 
Obvious. 
Do. 
