-5= this summer, it becama eident that the Magistvatre ie the real authority. When I suggested that ai. ili cen debere the vucsibility ef restricting the payment te Kili residents in order to teserve a larger per capitesum for those attempting to mske e suita>rle adjustment to Kili, they spent several long nights in discussion and finally decided te continue payment to all | Bikini heirs regardless of present residence. This was a spectacular valid- ation of the authority of froij and linezge alabs; the euthority system represented by the land at Bikini still prevails in thia activity. 3) As previously described, Kili lenc was partirioned in 1954--all except the land in the village where the sesidences are corcentrated. My questioning this summer about rights to village lend uncovered disputes about ownership of trees newly planted near the houses. I was told that the Council had euthorit- to settle these disputes but had taken no action. My inquiry prompted the isgistrace (as ircij?) to lay out boundaries among the houses in his section of the village; the Policeman did the same in the other section, and I mapped the results. The Council as a decision-making group never once entered into the matter. Although landowning groups are no longer lineage-orlente4, several cases of succession are in dispute between younger brother or sister's son and the children of the deceased alab. In at least two cases the Magistrate stated that a younger brother should succeed, but he took no action to enforce his opinion. (4) Payment to the land aicb (both old and sew) of a share of the copra Ce produced on a landholding continues at Kili in 1963 as it had at Bikini. But the alab is no longer obligated to share his land receipts with the froij. In sharp, contrast, the interest payment is subject to levy by the ten alabs, and part of this is passed on to the troij. Hendicraft made for export is a curious compromise; no regular levy is made although the coconut leaves