The Polynesian., 1841-10-16
49, Respecting officers to be appointed
anew.

his cAplanatary section is for all those
officers that are newly appointed to en-.
force these laws of the kingdom. and ais,
tor all those who aie called officers. You
are appointed as persons to assign labors
IN perfect accordance with the require
ments of this law. If you see the chiefs.
landlords, or any other people doing that
which is forbidden in this law, you are to
give them correct information Of the crime
they are committing-the crime of seiz-
ing these articles which are said to belong
to the common people. You are to give
notice of those acts which not being well
understood, and liable to involve the ac-
tors in difficulty, that the idler is to be
punished with hunge- and povertv-that
it is the duty of the people to labor for
that property which is appropriate to the
several farms all round the isIand-to su-
perintcnd the numbering of the leoplc,
including children and feeble persons, al
so the deaths and births in each vear-,o
search our a course by which those pa
rents who have multitude Of children,
may retain them without having them
separated from each other, and by which
an individual having the charge of several
feeble persons may be able to support
them-to consult with the landlords as to
what kind of production is most appropri-
ate to their several lands. according to the
suggestions of this law-to reflect well on
the means by which the amount of prop
erty may be increased each year above
that of the preceding, that it may be as
certained also whether there really is an
increase of property on the islands or not.
60. Taboocd articles on the mountains.
Of all the things which grow spontane-
ously on the mountains, the landlord can
taboo nothing for himself. except one kind
of timber; this however does not apply to
timber prepared by the hand of man that
is his. If any of the common people take
the timber which the landlord had tabooed
for himself, he shall pay one of every two
sticks to the landlord, however many he
may have taken. His ma esty the king
taboos the sandal wood for himself. The
visters of the mountains shall not touch
that timber, until such time as the king
shall say, when all the people may cut it
by paying two thirds to the king, reserv-
ing one third to themselves. He also Ia
boos all large trees such as one man can
not clasp. That tree shall not be feIled
for nothing. 1t may be cut for canoes,
paddles, and such great works as small
timber will not answer for. The landlord
or tax officer must be previously notified,
but no other person. Whoever violates
the taboo on those trees, and fells without
reason large tree, or breaks down the
small shoots of sandal wood in the noun
tains, shall be fined one hundred rafters
each five yards long. But if the man be
furnished with a whip-saw, they are the
third class of persons who may cut large
trees of the forest, but not sandal wood.
But the 90 and Mamo shall remain taboo
as of old. But there is one thing that is
taboo on all the mountains of the land,
that is, to kindle fires and burn up all the
verdure of the mountains. Whoever does
this shall be punished according to the az
eravation of the offence. II the crime be
small the fine shall be less /; if large then
he shall be fined by being put to hard Ia
4 ,,h tI,n