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formed against, shall pay a fine of four bullocks and four dollars ; 
but if he begs pardon and confesses his guilt, he shall pay only 
four dollars. 
Any person guilty of stealing fuel, shall pay a fine of one bullock 
and one dollar. If a large quantity of fuel is stolen, the fine is 
three bullocks and three dollars. 
Any person taking away a canoe without permission of the 
owner, shall pay a fine of one bullock and one dollar. 
Any person who sells to a slave, and the master of the slave is 
not present, if even the master himself is a slave, and the pur¬ 
chaser has not wherewith to pay, the seller shall lose his money. 
If any things lost be found by the people, one-third shall go to 
the sovereign and the persons who find them. 
If any. person buys lost property and the owner of the property 
finds it, he must make the person prove where he got it,—if the 
property be small that he bought, then it shall be divided between 
the buyer and the owner; if the latter declines accusing the former 
as a thief, the person of whom the property was bought shall 
be sought after, and if he be found, the property shall be divided. 
But if much property has been bought by him, and he cannot 
prove from whom he had it, the tangena shall be given. 
For bullocks that trespass and destroy the people’s property, the 
owners shall pay one-quarter of a dollar for each bullock, for a pig 
one-forty-eighth, for a sheep one-seventy-second, for ducks, &c. 
one hundred and forty-fourth, and hens, &c. may be beaten to death. 
And for small thefts also, if the article is eaten on the spot 
where it was taken, and not carried home, the theft is not 
punishable. 
Any person found guilty of stealing fowls shall receive forty 
stripes, and have his or her hair cut off*. 
And for all the above-mentioned crimes, if the persons guilty 
accuse themselves, one-half of the fines shall be taken off*. 
All the fines arising from law suits shall be divided between the 
sovereign and the parties who gain the cause. 
For taking person or property by force, or theft, or beating 
a person, even if the tangena is not given, the fines shall be 
divided ; half shall belong to the sovereign, and the other half to 
the owner of stolen goods and the informer. 
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