93. If a person under fifteen years of age commit murder, transportation is the punishment. 94. As to concealing criminals. 95. As to proclamations about offenders. 96. The officers cannot command a son to inform on or to give up his father or mother, or a servant his master, or a younger brother his elder. 97. In some cases the relatives of a criminal may be arrested and confined, but this Chinese plan is not commonly used in Japan. 98. Gowo mong--examination by torture, as striking, or pouring water down the throat. 99. As to escaping from banishment on the islands, or crimes committed during banishment. 100. As to escaping from prison. 101. As to men who free themselves from their irons. 102. The higher rank a man is of, the more serious is his crime. 103. And, _vice versa_, a crime is to be considered lighter in a man of low degree. 104. As to criminals who have been banished from towns and villages, if they try to return. 105. If he is ejected a second time he is marked, and if he returns a third time he is beheaded. These marks are broad black bands across the arm. The different towns (Yedo, Miako, Osaka, and Nagasaki) have different ways of marking. 106. If any one shall secretly make weights. All the weights are made and issued by government in Japan. 107. In regard to the keepers of the street gates in Yedo, if one shall find any money or article of value and keep it. 108. In Yedo it is the custom to take out a drunken man, or a man that has died on the street, and lay him in another. This is to be punished. 109. If a man accused of a serious crime should die, his body is to be preserved in salt. 110. In reference to criminals and prisoners in bad health. There are four hospitals for criminals in Yedo. 111. A criminal whose time is expired, and who has neither home nor friends, is to be put to work in Tsukudajima for one thousand days, and at the end of that time the profits of his labor are to be given him, and he may get a street gate to keep. 112. If a man forces a girl to marry him, he shall be beheaded. 113. Rules as to pawning and pawn-shops. Pawn-shops charge very high interest--about ten per cent a month. 114. If a man be taken ill upon the Tokaido, he is not to be sent from one village to another, but is to be kept, and a doctor sent for to attend him. 115. If a man who has no right to do so shall wear two swords. 116. What is to be done to squatters upon wild ground, who have not given notice to the officers of their having done so. 117. If a man tries to conceal or prevent the confiscation of his ground. 118. When the son of a criminal of high rank wishes to shave his head and become a priest, in some measure to save the reputation of his family, he is to inform the officers and make arrangements with them. 119. In reference to the children of a criminal, a difference is made between the children of an officer and a common person.