The following is a translation of a similar document in which the penalties imposed are somewhat light; but in this case the _kuei_ are of ancient date and the _tiao_ was worth a great deal more than at present.
"1. Gambling Fine levied according to circumstances.
4. Gleaning in the harvest-fields without permission 1 _tiao_.
5. Feeding cattle in a neighbour's field after harvest 1 _tiao_.
6. Uprooting grass and shrubs 500 _cash_.
7. Climbing over private walls and stealing manure or removing soil 500 _cash_.
9. Stealing silk-worms or cocoons Fine levied according to circumstances.
10. Knocking down chestnuts with sticks 500 _cash_.
11. Allowing dogs to go on the _ts'an ch'ang_ (silk-worm feeding-ground) and eat the silk-worms[102] 500 _cash_.
Headmen and elders who are found guilty of any of the above offences will incur double the specified penalty.
If doubtful[103] characters enter the village and create a disturbance, the heads of all the families will hold a meeting to decide what is to be done with them."
We have seen that a large number of the villages of Weihaiwei are named after the families that inhabit them. But when a single prosperous family has "overflowed" into a number of other villages it is necessary to differentiate between them, and the names given have often some reference to the outward aspect of the locality. For example, the name Sha-li-Wang-chia means the village of the "Wang-family-who-live-in-the-sand." As a matter of fact this village is situated near the sea-shore amid rolling sandhills, so the name is appropriate enough. Similarly the name Sung-lin-Kuo-chia means "the Kuo family of the Pine-grove." There are also such village names as Willow-grove, Black Rock, Thatched Temple, North-of-the-Ku-mountain, North-of-the-Pheasant-hill, White-pony Village. Sometimes pieces of family-land are given fancy names for the convenience of identification. The _Ssŭ-lao-p'o kou_ is "the ditch of the dead woman," apparently because a female's corpse was once found there: but as this name struck the owner as being unlucky and likely to bring misfortune on his family, he changed the "tone" of the first word, which transformed the phrase into "the ditch of the four old wives."