Michael Moerman

Village board meeting

February 19, 1961. The headman called the Village Committee for a meeting, various topics were addressed: 1) Noting a group of people who refused to help with the construction of roads. 2) Keeping the bathroom clean and protection from fire. 3) Khamwaw stole the horse of the village headman to sell. 4) There was arson of barns in the other villages. The headman asked the villagers to take awareness of the threat of fire very seriously.

Measures to prevent conflict

February 28. During a procession to the temple there could be conflict between the villagers. There should be someone to keep order.

Village police

April 13-17, 1960. During the Songkran festival, there were two groups of security in the village: caretakers during the daytime and during the nighttime. During this time, there would be strangers from another village visiting Ban Phaed. It was a possible that there could be thieves in camouflage.

Village organization

September 28, 1960. People who had prior military service or someone who had worked for the Board of Directors and the Board of the Monastery were exempt from the workforce to construct the roads.

Sanitation committee

April 11, 1960. The headman asked Pawn to buy alcohol in the morning. There were rumors about the misappropriation of village funds by the headman.

Rapping signs

November 9, 1960. There were three kinds of tapping signals to call a meeting: 1) tapping from slow to fast to call a general meeting. 2) Tapping fast consecutively for the notification of a bandit. 3) Consecutive tapping very quickly for notification of a fire.

Assistant village headman

August 27, 1960. Khmu Kew and Pinkham had been named as assistant headmen. Mai Boon and Ngen had been selected as interpreters (?). These people were exempt from the workforce.

Duties of the village headman in the past

December 7, 1960. During World War II, Sicai was the village headman. He served in the transportation of weapons and in teh construction of a military camp in Chiang Rai. Sicai said that formerly, high-rank bureaucrats selected the headman by asking villagers who would be appropriate. Anyone who recieived the most recommendations would then be village headman. But the majority of people often did not want the position, and the duties involved with the village in the past were not as numerous as today. The district authorities would assign duties for the headman.

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