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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.
The proattin also, who is security for the damages, receives privately some consideration; but none is openly allowed of. A refusal on his part to become security for his dependant or client is held to justify the latter in renouncing his civil dependence and choosing another patron. Evidence is used among these people in a manner very different from the forms of our courts of justice.
The person in whose house it is carried on, if with his knowledge, is equally liable to the fine with the gamesters. A proattin knowing of gaming in his dusun and concealing it incurs a fine of twenty dollars. One half of the fines goes to the informer, the other to the Company, to be distributed among the industrious planters at the yearly payment of the customs.
Their advocate may be a proattin, or other person indifferently; nor is there any stated compensation for the assistance, though if the cause be gained a gratuity is generally given, and too apt to be rapaciously exacted by these chiefs from their clients, when their conduct is not attentively watched.
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