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pay for any article that may be found miss ing from said house. If a person seduces or cohabits with a female slave, held by him as security for debt, with the knowledge or consent of the debtor, he shall not be held guilty; but he shall give her a dower. If it occurs without the consent of the debtor, the creditor shall be liable to a fine, or shall give the woman a dower to be paid to the debtor. If a married woman commits adultery, both adulterer and adulteress shall suffer eighty lashes. If the lashes are changed or reduced to a fine, half the number of the woman's lashes shall be added to the man's fine. If a man seduces a maiden, both shall suffer one hundred lashes, and the man shall marry the woman and live with her even though he is married. If a married man commits adultery with a free woman, both shall be stoned to death. The punishment of the man may be reduced to imprisonment. The woman shall be buried up to her chest and be stoned with medium sized stones. If a bachelor or widower commits adultery and is killed by a non-Mohammedan, the non-Mohammedan shall be put to death. But a Mohammedan who may kill such an adulterer shall not be put to death. If a married man leaves his home on a long journey and nothing is heard of him, his wife shall not have the right to marry another; but if she learns that he has died or that he has divorced her, she shall then wait four years, after which she shall observe the customary mourning for his death; then she may marry again. The judges shall be careful not to change this decree in order that their power and influence may not suffer. If a man orders another to shoot at a deer, believing it to be a deer, and the person shoots believing also that he is shooting at a deer, but hits a man, neither the shooter nor the man who has ordered him to shoot shall be liable to punishment, but shall pay only a light fine as blood money. If a free man kills another free man, or a free woman kills another free woman, the slayer shall be punished. The blood money for the life of a woman or of a hermaphrodite shall be half that of a man; so also shall the fines for wounding a woman be rated at half those for wounding a man. If a free man divorces his wife three times,

or a slave divorces his wife twice, it shall not be lawful for him, the man, to marry again before the divorced woman is married to another person. The will of a free person shall be legitimate whether he be a non-Mohammedan or a per son of bad character; but the will of an insane person or an imbecile or a child or a slave shall not be legitimate. A son, the only child, shall inherit all of the estate of his father and mother. A daughter, the only child, shall inherit half the estate of her father and mother. In case of multiplicity of sons and daughters, the estate shall be so divided as to give each daughter half the share of one son. Wounds are classified as to depth, locality, and amount of tissue cut, the following fines being fixed to each class: For wounds of the skin unaccom panied by bleeding, three pesos2; if accompanied by bleeding, five pesos; if the skin is cut through and the flesh exposed, ten pesos. The fine for wounds that cut into the bone is twenty-five pesos; for wounds when the brain is penetrated, three hundred pesos. The blood money for the intentional or wilful murder of a Moslem shall be one hundred camels or one thousand three hundred and seventy pesos. The minimum amount of the blood money of a Moslem shall be eight hundred and sixty-eight and one-quarter pesos; for a heathen or pagan, fifty-seven and onequarter pesos. The New Legislation.—It is apparent from this survey of the Moro code that no modern civilized court could interpret and apply it so as to satisfy the funda mental requirements of liberty, justice and equality. What with us are re garded as only misdemeanors are, in this system, treated as felonies and pun ished with inhuman severity, while offenses that we regard as the greatest are, with them, sufficiently punished by a slight fine. Furthermore, institutions •The peso is worth about fifty cents, gold.