[87] Among many others, the following enactments, which were in force in some of the Eastern districts when the English arrived, will serve to shew the barbarities of the law then existing, in its operation on the people, and its leniency towards the great.
"Any person murdering his superior shall be beheaded, his body quartered and given to the wild beasts, and his head stuck upon a bambu.
"Any person disobeying his superior and attempting to murder him, may be killed by the superior, without giving any intimation thereof to the chief town.
"Any person daring to destroy any public advertisement promulgated by government shall forfeit his right hand.
"A Demáng, or other chief of a désa, being acquainted with any conspiracy tending to the injury of the state, and not giving intimation thereof, shall be punished by losing one ear, his head shall be shaved, and he shall be banished.
"Any person daring to offer violence to a priest in the mosque or among the tombs shall forfeit one hand.
"If a woman kills a man she shall be fined 500 reals batú.
"If a superior kills an inferior he shall be fined 1000 doits.
"If a person puts out the eyes of another he shall be fined 500 reals batú; if one eye only 50 reals."
There were also different fines for maiming different parts of the body. "For cutting out the tongue, 500 reals; for knocking out the teeth, 25; for breaking the thumb, 500; for breaking the finger, 100; and the like." See Collection of Native Laws at Banyuwangi.