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punished. But those who do not confess shall receive 
judgment. 
XXV. Concerning the unauthorized Climbing 
for Food. 
Climb not, unauthorized, another person's tree for food; 
the man who does this is criminal. To beg, to ask expli¬ 
citly the owner of the land (is right.) The man who 
steals food in a garden, or by the side of the house, takes 
that which is not given by the owner of the land. If the 
proprietor of the land desire that he may be tried, he shall 
be tried, and punished with labour. For food stolen from 
a garden—for the ow ner of the enclosure he shall perform 
labour, such as erecting a fence, the length being regu¬ 
lated by the value of the food stolen. But if it was food 
growing wild, or unenclosed, he shall make forty fathoms 
of road, or four fathoms of stone-work. 
XXVI. Concerning Revenue for the King and 
Governors. 
Every land that has received the word of God, and 
those that have not, whose institutions are good, agree 
that it is right to furnish property for their own king, who 
holds the government, and for the governors of the dis¬ 
tricts. It is also a thing frequently exhibited in the word 
of God, and taught by Jesus, our Lord, when he said, 
“ Render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar's ?" There¬ 
fore it is right that we do the same. Let every individual 
contribute towards the revenue of the king. The man of 
great property must furnish more than the man of less 
property. Such as governors of districts, shall give two 
hogs yearly. If not hogs, arrow-root ten measures ; if not 
this, cocoa-nut oil ten bamboos full; they must be good- 
sized bamboos. 
The raatiras , farmers, or small-landed proprietors, shall 
each give one hog annually. If not a hog, arrow-root five 
measures ; if not this, oil five bamboos. Those, also, who 
do not possess land, but belong to this country—or belong¬ 
ing to another land, but residing here—this shall be their 
contribution, one pig for one year, (smaller than that 
furnished by the farmers;) if not a pig, arrow-root, three 
measures, or oil three bamboos. 
This is another property that the farmers shall prepare 
for the king that holds the government: Each district shall 
prepare every year two mats, ten fathoms long, and twe 
