Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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9.252. Having duly settled his country, and having built forts in accordance with the Institutes, he shall use his
utmost exertions to remove (those men who are nocuous like) thorns.
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9.253. By protecting those who live as (becomes) Aryans and by removing the thorns, kings, solely intent on
guarding their subjects, reach heaven.
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9.254. The realm of that king who takes his share in kind, though he does not punish thieves, (will be) disturbed
and he (will) lose heaven.
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9.255. But if his kingdom be secure, protected by the strength of his arm, it will constantly flourish like a (well)-
watered tree.
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9.256. Let the king who sees (everything) through his spies, discover the two sorts of thieves who deprive
others of their property, both those who (show themselves) openly and those who (lie) concealed.
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9.257. Among them, the open rogues (are those) who subsist by (cheating in the sale of) various marketable
commodities, but the concealed rogues are burglars, robbers in forests, and so forth.
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9.258. Those who take bribes, cheats and rogues, gamblers, those who live by teaching (the performance of)
auspicious ceremonies, sanctimonious hypocrites, and fortune-tellers,
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9.259. Officials of high rank and physicians who act improperly, men living by showing their proficiency in
arts, and clever harlots,
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9.260. These and the like who show themselves openly, as well as others who walk in disguise (such as) non-
Aryans who wear the marks of Aryans, he should know to be thorns (in the side of his people).
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9.261. Having detected them by means of trustworthy persons, who, disguising themselves, (pretend) to follow
the same occupations and by means of spies, wearing various disguises, he must cause them to be instigated (to
commit offences), and bring them into his power.