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 122 LAWS. another, xi^itk ike hnoivledge of the magistrate^ and the person so hired be killed in the attempt, the person employing him shall give the proffered re- Avard to the family of the deceased, and be at the expence of the funeral charges." In exacting retribution for assault, the law of retaliation is not pushed to the same extremity amons: the Indian islanders as amono; the Arabs and Hindus. Life is required for life, but we do not hear of the refinement of limb for limb, eye for eye, or tooth for tooth. Like those nations, however, we discover that punishment is allotted, not according to the degree of malice, but to the accidental cir- cumstances of the nature and situation of the wound. " If," say the laws of Bali, on this subject, " a wound be inflicted with a kris, a spear, an arrow from a blow-pipe, Tidup^ or other sharp-pointed weapon, and a tooth, a hand, or a leg, be injur- ed to a inoderate degr^ee^ the offender shall pay a fine of ten thousand pichis. If the wound be on the neck, or the head, and conside7Yible, the fine shall be two hundred thousand. These fines go to the magistrate." The following law, from the Ja- vanese tract called Suryo-alaniy is characteristic, and more reasonable : " If a man receive from an- other a wound, by which he is maimed or blemish- ed, the fine shall be equal to that for taking his life." The laws of the Rejangs on this head are to the same effect as those now mentioned. The follow-