Regarding the children of such a boi, customs differ somewhat. Some chiefs have made it the rule that only the youngest son, who inherits his father's property, is a boi, the remainder of the sons and all the girls being entirely free. Others insist that all the children are boi, and that the chief is entitled to the marriage prices of the daughters. They give, as a reason for this, that the chief has paid for the boi's wife and so is entitled to consider the children as boi. In either case the children are inhrang boi. A female boi is allowed to marry, and the chief receives the marriage price, and when this has been paid in full he has no further claim on the woman or her children during her husband's lifetime, but should she be left a widow, she is sometimes forced to re-enter the chief's house; but as a rule, if she behaves decently, she is allowed to remain on in her husband's house, and manage his property on behalf of his children, who are never considered boi. Should she re-marry, the chief will again receive whatever sum is paid as her marriage price. It will be seen that the inpuichhung are by no means badly off, and the custom seems in every way suited to the circumstances of the case. Many a clever young man rises from being a boi to being the chief's most trusted adviser, and it is by no means unusual for a chief to take a favourite boi into his own family by the ceremony called "Saphun" (see under Adoption, page 54). (ii.) Chemsen Boi (Red Dao Boi).--These are criminals who, to escape from the consequences of their ill deeds, take refuge in the chief's house. Murderers closely pursued by the avengers of blood rushed into the chief's presence and saved their lives at the expense of their own or their children's freedom. Debtors unable to pay their creditors sought the chief's protection, and he released them from their debts on condition that they and their children became boi. Thieves and other vagabonds avoided punishment by becoming the chief's boi. Civil disputes were unblushingly decided in favour of the party who volunteered to become the chief's boi. It is evident that the custom in these cases has grown up by degrees from the chief's granting sanctuary to those who, having committed serious crimes, were in danger of being killed by those they had injured or their relatives. Chemsen boi do not live in the chief's house or work for him. Their position is similar to that of an inhrang boi, but all their children are considered boi to the same extent as their parents. The chiefs generally take the marriage price of the daughters of such Boi.