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 the wax. A mother-hive of bees is twenty-four pence in value. A first swarm is sixteen pence in value. A second swarm is twelve pence in value. A third swarm is eight pence in value, A mother-hive, after the first swarm has gone out of it, is twenty pence in value. After the second swarm has gone out of it, it is sixteen pence in value. After the third swarm has gone out of it, it is twelve pence in value. No swarm is of more value than four pence until it shall be three days on wing and continually [so] ; a day to find a place to move to, and the second to move, and the third to rest. Whoever shall find a swarm on another person's land upon a bough, receives four pence from the owner of the land if he wills to have the swarm. Whoever shall find a hive on another person's land, receives a legal penny or the wax at the option of the owner of the land. The ninth day before August every swarm assumes the status of a mother-hive, and then it is twenty-four pence in value, excepting a wing-swarm, for such does not assume the status of a mother-hive until the calends of the following May ; and then it is twenty-four pence in value like the rest.

hoever shall kill a cat which guards a barn of a king or shall take it stealthily, its head