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for the owner of the pig one, for the king one. If (he have) no canoes 
bales or bundles of native cloth, two of them, if the tusks of the pig were 
growing up out of its mouth.* Each bale shall contain one hundred 
fathoms (200 yards) of cloth, four yards wide. If a half-grown pig, five 
fathoms. If a small pig, twenty fathoms in the bale. For the owner of 
the pig one half, and for the king the other. If he have no cloth, arrow- 
root. If the pig stolen was a large one, forty measures, t For a half- 
grown pig twenty measures, and for a small one ten. For the owne of 
the pig one part, for the king the other. Let the arrow-root of the king, 
and the owner of the pig, be equal. If not arrow-root, some other pro¬ 
perty. Thus let every thing stolen be paid for. Let four-fold be returned 
as a recompense, double for the king, and double for the owner. If he 
(the thief) have no property, let him be set to work on the lands of the 
person he has robbed. If he refuse, his land shall be the king^s, and he 
shall wander on the road t for an unlimited period. If the king restore 
him, he shall return to his land, if not (thus) restored he shall not return. 
The magistrates or judges shall award the punishment annexed to this 
crime in the laws, and that only. The judge shall not demand the value 
of the property from the relatives of the thief.’* 
To this law, in the revision of the laws which took 
place in 1826, two or three particulars were added; one 
increasing the punishment with the repetition of the 
crime, and then expressly referring to those depredations 
in which burglary was committed, and a chest or box 
broken open. 
III. Relating to Pigs. 
If a pig enters a garden, and destroys the produce, let no recompense 
be required, because of the badness of the fence he entered. If stones are 
thrown at a pig, and it be bruised, maimed, or killed, the man thus in¬ 
juring it shall take it, and furnish one equal in size, which he shall take 
to the owner of the pig killed or injured. If he has no pig, he shall take 
some other property, as a compensation. For a large pig, twenty measures 
of arrow-root, and for a smaller one, ten. If not arrow-root, cocoa-nut 
oil, as many bamboo canes full as measures of arrow-root would have 
been required. If not (this) personal labour, for a large pig he shall make 
* A full-grown hog, of the largest size, is thus denominated, 
t A measure contains five or six pounds weight, 
t The figurative term for banishment. 
