Note note 25 — NOTES TO PART I

25 Fines paid for judging (p. 92).--All fines received by a native judge are periodically divided among the chiefs of the district, who combine to enforce the law. If a pig or a goat is given, then the meat is shared out or the market value put into the fund. The money or goods are divided according to the rank and influence of the chiefs, and he who might be called the 349chairman, or principal, received twice as much as any of the others.