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Regulations for the Judges, the Jury, and the Messengers, (or Peace- 
officers.) 
Concerning the Principal Judges. 
1. The king, or supreme governors, shall select the chief judges ; and 
'when a judge dies, or is interdicted that he may not judge, or when a 
judge removes to another land, the king and supreme chiefs shall nominate 
another, to perform the duties thus discontinued. 
2. The duties of the chief judges. This is their duty.—When a man is 
tried, and his guilt fully established, the judge shall pronounce the sen¬ 
tence on his crime. The punishment written in the law, and annexed to 
his crime (shall be adjudged) and no other sentence. 
3. Concerning recording the transactions or proceedings.—The judge 
shall write the name of the prisoner, with his crime, the names of the 
parties by whom he was accused, the punishment adjudged for his crime, 
in a book, for the inspection of the king and the people. 
4. Concerning the emolument.—The property or salary of the chief 
judges shall be given yearly by the king. All fines or confiscations shall 
belong to the king, or the parties specified in the laws. 
Concerning the (subordinate) Judges or Magistrates. 
1. The king or supreme chiefs shall select or appoint the magistrates 
for all the districts. 
2. Their duties.—person accused of any crime, if the principal judge 
is not at the place, shall be brought before the magistrates of the district, 
who shall try such individual (in their respective districts;) at other 
seasons of public trial they shall also assist. 
3. When a crime is committed, such as theft, or other similar offence, 
the person whose property has been stolen shall go to a magistrate and 
give information of the same. The magistrate shall write the names of the 
accused and the accuser. If the person whose property has been stolen, 
or who has been injured, desires that the offender should be prosecuted, 
he shall be tried; but if not, he shall not at once be brought to trial. 
4. The magistrates shall endeavour to extinguish every kind of evil 
that may appear, especially quarrelling, family broils, obstinate conten¬ 
tions, and fighting, that peace may be preserved. Let not the people 
treat them with disrespect. 
5 When sentence has been pronounced, let the magistrate inspect 
its execution, and direct the messengers or officers that it be fully at¬ 
tended to. 
6. It is with (or it is the duty of) the king to furnish the remuneration 
for all the magistrates; such remuneration shall be yearly given, for their 
vigilance in making straight that which was crooked. 
