28. How persons are to be dealt with for snaring birds, or _feræ naturæ_, on the hunting-lands of the Shiogoon. 29. In towns, if a man have committed a small offense, the Yakunins may order his door to be shut upon him, and him to be confined in his own house. 30. Cases of embezzlement of money by village head men. 31. Punishment for a man who has failed to enroll his name in the official register. 32. If a man offer a bribe to an officer he is to be severely punished; the officer, if he accepts it, is lightly dealt with. 33. All the property of a person, convicted of theft or robbery is to be confiscated. 34. If the people on a Daimio’s territory send a remonstrance against his oppression to the Hio jo shio, what is to be done with it. 35. All the goods belonging to a debtor may be sold to pay his debts, except his wearing apparel. 36. If persons try to bring wild ground into cultivation, and call it their own without informing the officers, what proceedings are to be taken. 37. Cases of litigation as to rented ground. 38. When persons are unable, from poverty, to pay government taxes upon ground occupied by them. 39. In regard to loans of money, of which twenty different kinds are alluded to--to a friend, to a temple, etc. 40. If the whole of a loan cannot be repaid, and it is referred to the officers, they are to settle the interest to be paid. Upon large amounts the interest is placed low, upon small amounts it is high. Upon 10,000 kobangs the rate will be 80 kobangs per month, or nearly 10 per cent per annum. Upon one boo it may be one tenpo a month, or 75 per cent per annum. 41. In borrowing money, the interest is to vary with the security. If the security is land, the interest is to be low; with any other securities the interest should be high. 42. In disputes as to money: If no witnesses are brought forward; if partners in business quarrel; if persons in theaters quarrel; if a collector uses subscriptions to temples for his own purposes; if the evidence depends upon a paper without a date; if no rate of interest is mentioned--then these cases are not to be taken up. 43. If it is alleged that a Daimio has borrowed money from some town or body of people, and they do not bring forward a receipt, such is to be dismissed. 44. If one creditor refuses to have a composition. 45. The officers may settle the time to be allowed to pay off a debt, after which the securities may be taken. For 1,000 kobangs, 12 months to be allowed; for 30 kobangs, 40 days. 46. When property already mortgaged is given in security. 47. In cases where the cargo of a ship is secretly sold upon her passage, and a story of bad weather is told. 48. When a father has sealed a draft of his intended will, and has not written it out, what is the position of the heirs. 49. When false witnesses are suborned.