This is to proclaim hereby the decrees of Padukka Mahasari Mawlāna Hajji Mohammed Jamālu-l-Kirām.
The subjects discussed in the following articles are, first, theft; second, murder; third, adultery; fourth, opprobrium; fifth, cases arising from unwitnessed purchase; sixth, false claims; seventh, unlawful or unauthorized exactions; eighth, debt; ninth, finds; tenth, unjust actions and decisions.
To every crime or misdemeanor which comes under these articles a fine is attached, differing according to the nature and the degree of the crime.
The Code
Article I
Section 1. The thief shall be fined seventy pesos, no matter what he steals. The fine shall always be seventy pesos irrespective of the person robbed, be he low or high in rank. The manner in which the fine shall be divided between the person robbed and the treasury differs.
(a) If the sultan’s property is stolen, fifty pesos shall go to the sultan and twenty pesos to the treasury.
(b) If datus with official titles or Twan Habīb Mūra are robbed, forty pesos shall go to the person robbed and thirty pesos shall go to the treasury.
(c) If other datus or Twan Hajji Būtu or a descendant of a Sarīp are robbed, thirty-five pesos shall be paid to the person robbed and thirty-five to the treasury.
(d) If a minister of rank and official title or a hajji in the council of the sultan is robbed, thirty pesos shall be paid to the person robbed and forty pesos to the treasury.