for the years that are neglected, and he shall do the ordered work
on the field and return to the owner of the field.

section 63. If the field was unreclaimed land, he shall do the ordered
work on the field and return it to the owner of the field and measure out
ten _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_ for each year.

section 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.

section 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.

NOTE.--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 concerning 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. [See page 58.] Scheil estimates
the lost portion at 35 sections, and following him we recommence with

section 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 his
merchant.

section 101. If where he has gone he has not seen prosperity, he shall
make up and return the money he took, and the agent shall give to the
merchant.

section 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.

section 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 free.

section 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.

section 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.

section 106. If an agent has taken money from a merchant and his
merchant has disputed with him, that merchant shall put the agent to
account before God and witnesses con