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The bangun or compensation for the murder of a common person, woman or girl, is 150 dollars. The bangun or compensation for the murder of the legitimate children or wife of a pambarab is 250 dollars. The bangun of an outlaw is fifty dollars without tippong bumi. No bangun is to be paid for a person killed in the commission of a robbery.
The outlaw to be delivered up to the Resident or pangeran, accompanied with his writ of outlawry, in duplicate, one copy to be lodged with the Resident, and one with the outlaw's pambarab. The person who outlaws must pay all debts to that day.
If the pangeran sits at the bechar he is entitled to one half of all bio, and of such fines, or shares of fines, as fall to the chiefs, the pambarabs, and other proattins dividing the remainder. If the pangeran be not present the pambarabs have one-third, and the other proattins two-thirds of the foregoing. Though a single pambarab only sit he is equally entitled to the above one-third.
The chiefs, when nominated, do not however assume the title of dupati until confirmed by the pangeran, or by the Company's Resident. If more tribes than one are settled on the same river each has usually its pambarab. Not only the rivers or districts but indeed each dusun is independent of, though not unconnected with, its neighbours, acting in concert with them by specific consent.
The party intended to be satisfied by the oath generally prescribes the mode and purport of it. The bangun or compensation for the murder of a pambarab is 500 dollars. The bangun or compensation for the murder of an inferior proattin is 250 dollars. The bangun or compensation for the murder of a common person, man or boy, is 80 dollars.
If a man wounds his wife by jujur with a weapon and an apparent intention of killing her he pays a fine of twenty dollars. If a pambarab wounds his wife by jujur he pays five dollars and a goat. If a pambarab's daughter, married by jujur, is wounded by her husband he pays five dollars and a goat.
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