NEW CODE OF LAWS. 
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Literal Translation of the Laws of Huahine and 
Sir Charles Sander’s Island . 
I. Concerning Murder. 
If parents murder their infants, or children unborn, if 
wot the parents but the relatives, if not them, a stranger, 
or any person who shall wantonly commit murder, shall 
be punished—shall be transported to a distant land, unin¬ 
habited by men—such (a land) as Palmerston’s Island. 
There shall (such criminals) be left until they die, and 
shall never be brought back. 
II. Concerning Theft. 
If a man steal one pig, four shall he bring as a recom¬ 
pense ; for the owner of the pig two, for the king two. If 
he have no pigs, two single canoes, 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.f For a half-grown pig twenty measures, 
and for a small one ten. For the owner 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 property. 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 w 7 ander on the road f 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 pro¬ 
perty from the relatives of the thief/’ 
* A full-grown hog, of the largest size, is thus denominated. 
1 A measure contains five or six pounds weight. 
t The figurative term for banishment. 
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