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§ 59. If a man without the consent of the owner of the orchard has cut down a tree in a man’s orchard, he shall pay halfa mina ofsilver. [2 K 3%},
§ 60. If a man has given a field to a gardener to plant a garden, and the gardener has planted the garden, four years he shall rear the garden, in the fifth year the owner of the garden and the gardener shall share equally. The owner of the garden shall cut off his share and take it. [Ly 19?8-*°],
§ 61. If the gardener has not included all the field in the planting, has left a waste place, one shall set him the waste place in his share.
§ 62. If he has not planted the field which has been given him as a garden; if it was corn land, the gardener shall measure out to the owner of the field produce of the field, like its neighbour, for the years that are neglected. Further, he shall do the prescribed work on the field and return to the owner of the field.
§ 63. If the field was unreclaimed land, he shall do the prescribed work on the field and return it to the owner of the field. Further, he shall measure out ten GUR of corn per GAN for each year.
§ 64. If a man has given his garden to a gardener to farm, the gardener as long as he holds the garden shall give to the owner of the garden two- thirds from the produce of the garden, and he himself shall take one-third.
§ 65. If the gardener does not farm the garden and has diminished the yield, he shall measure out the yield of the garden like its neighbour.
Here five columns of the monument have been
erased, only the commencing characters of column xvii. being visible. The subjects of this last part included the further enactments concern- ing the rights and duties of gardeners, the whole of the regulations concerning houses let to tenants, and the relationships of the merchant to his agents, which continue on the obverse of the monument. Scheil estimates the lost portion at sections, and, following him, we reeommence with—
§ 100. . . . the interests of the money, as much as he took, he shall write down, and when he has numbered his days he shall answer the merchant.
§ 101. If where he has gone he has not seen prosperity, the agent shall double the money he took and shall give to the merchant.
§ 102. If a merchant has given to the agent money as a favour, and where he has gone he has seen loss, the full amount of money he shall return to the merchant.
§ 103. If while he goes on his journey the enemy has made him quit whatever he was carrying, the agent shall swear by the name of God and shall go
ree.
§ 104. If the merchant has given to the agent corn, wool, oil, or any sort of goods, to traffic with, the agent shall write down the price and hand over to the merchant ; the agent shall take a sealed memorandum of the price which he shall give to the merchant.
§ 105. If an agent has forgotten and has not taken a sealed memorandum of the money he has given to the merchant, money that is not sealed for he shall not put in his accounts.
§ 106. If an agent has taken money from a merchant, and has disputed with his merchant, that merchant shall put the agent to account before God and witnesses concerning the money taken, and the agent shall give to the merchant threefold the money he has taken.
§ 107. If a merchant has wronged an agent and the agent has returned to his merchant whatever the merchant gave him, but the merchant has disputed with the agent as to what the agent gave him, that agent shall put the merchant to account before God and witnesses, and the merchant be-
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cause he disputed the agent shall give to the agent sixfold whatever he has taken. ;
§ 108. If a wine merchant has not received corn as the price of drink, has received silver by the great stone, further has made the price of drink less than the price of corn, that wine merchant one shall put to account and throw her into the water. [Jos 21%], ,
§ 109. If a wine merchant has collected a riotous assembly in her house, and has not seized those rioters and driven them to the palace, that wine merchant shall be put to death. apis:
§ 110. If a votary, a lady, who is not living in the convent, has opened a wine-shop or has entered a wine-shop for drink, one shall burn that woman. [Gn 3874, Ly 21°).
§ 111. If a wine merchant has given sixty KA of best beer at harvest time for thirst, she shall take fifty KA of corn. .
§ 112. If a man stays away on a journey and has given silver, gold, precious stones, or portable treasures to a man, has caused him to take them for transport, and that man has not given what- ever was given for transport, where he has trans- ported it, but has taken it for himself, the owner of the transported object shall put that man to account concerning whatever he had to transport and gave not, and that man shall give to the owner of the transported object fivefold whatever was given him. [Ex 227, Lv 67°].