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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 another expressly refer¬ 
ring 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 injuring 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 twenty fathoms of fencing, for a 
small one five, for the owner of the pig killed. If it be a 
good fence, and is broken (through the hunger or obsti¬ 
nacy of the pig) and the produce is destroyed, the pig 
shall not be killed, but tied up, and the magistrate shall 
appoint the recompense the proprietor of the garden shall 
receive. The owner also shall mend the broken fence. 
IV. Concerning Stolen Goods or Property. 
If a man attempting to steal property obtains it, and 
sells it to another, and the purchaser knew it to be stolen 
property which he bought—if he does not make it known, 
but keeps it a secret, he also is a thief; and as is the 
thief’s, such shall be his punishment. Every person con¬ 
cealing property stolen by another, knowing it to be 
stolen, is also a thief; and as is the thief’s, such shall be 
his punishment. 
V. Concerning Lost Property. 
When an article that has been lost is discovered by any 
one, and the owner is known to the finder, the property 
shall be taken to the person to whom it belongs. But if 
such property be concealed, when the finder knew to 
whom it belonged, and yet hid it, he also is a thief; and 
that his punishment be equal to that of a thief, is right. 
