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1822 Sept. 22 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Sept. 22 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 3. Disappearance

At the request of any person so applying /On the occasion of any such

application/ the Judge shall immediately deliver to him or suffer him to take or

to cause to be taken a copy thereof signed by the said Judge: copies in any

number being taken of such copy, the Judge shall without delay cause examination

thereof to be made, and as soon as they have respectively been found or made

correct shall in like manner authenticate them by his signature, to the end that

by the applicant transmission thereof be made to all such judicatories and

Mosques as the applicant shall be desirous of sending them to: whereupon

immediately upon the receipt of each such copy, the Iman of the Mosque shall

make publication thereof by reading the contents to the faithful in full

congregation assembled:

In every judicatory in the office of which any such copy shall have /has/ been

received, the presiding Judge shall cause it to be kept in the archives, and

having first made notification thereof in the promptest and at the same time in

the most public manner that the circumstances of time and place admitt of.

Attached to such record of disappearance shall be an invitation to all persons

having knowledge of any facts, tending to a /the/ discovery of the authors of

the injury or to the causing it to cease, if the party be alive to the causing

it to cease, to repair to any judicatory or to any Mosque at their choice, there

to testify what they know: which done it shall be incumbent upon the President

of the Judicatory or the Iman of the Mosque shall upon their responsibility use

such means as their situation admitts of to the forwarding to the proper

Judicatory the information so obtained.
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    Disappearance.

    In case of the unexpected disappearance of any person, if it be known or

    suspected that he is clandestinely /secretly/ kept in confinement any where or

    has been cland /secretly/ put to death or forcibly /by force or fraud/ sent out

    of the country, application being made on his behalf to the Cadi or to any

    inferior judicatory, entry shall thereof be made in the Register Book of such

    judicatory; means shall be employed for the recordation and notification of the

    fact, to the end that in the case of his transportation he may be brought back,

    and /being under confinement /if unlawfully confined/ he may be liberated or

    otherwise dealt with/ if unlawfully transported he may be brought back, or if

    unlawfully put to death measures may be taken for the punishment of all persons

    concerned in the commission of the crime /injury/ /thereto contributory/

    Such application being made the Judge shall hear and make entry thereof in /an

    appropriate/ Register Book of the Judicatory, and shall cause /to do whatsoever

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    Description: 1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations

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    The power of public opinion being the only check that can be applied to the

    power of arbitrary government, and the efficiency of that tutelary power

    depending as above upon the number of the persons to whom on each occasion the

    appropriate information is notified the great misfortune is - that in the

    country in question the means of notification are so narrow: in that country

    free newspapers - the matchless instruments of notification - even newspapers of

    every kind - being as yet altogether wanting. Production of the statement,

    multiplication, conveyance - all these operations are necessary: production and

    multiplication are ensured by newspapers: conveyance, by the Letter-Post. In the

    country in question, of the possible sources of notification for the purpose in

    question the two Universities, - the 14 Judicatories and the 3000 Mosques

    compose at present the whole catalogue. In this state of penury, every thing

    that can be done must therefore be done, to employ to the greatest advantage and

    extent possible, those sole existing resources: and by every addition that can

    be made to the number of them, benefit will be produced - not in this shape

    only, but in an infinite variety of other shapes.

    Supposing the here-proposed Securities established, the number of the written

    instruments brought into existence - instruments written in the Judicatories and

    the Mosques, would, were it from this cause alone, receive very considerable

    encrease. There would be the originals, and there would be the copies taken for

    transmission. For the originals, no means of multiplication would be of any use.

    But, for the copies taken for transmission in the Universities and Judicatories

    printing presses would be indispensable: one allotted to this purpose, in each

    of the Universities, and in each of the Judicatories.

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    having on each occasion but one place to correspond with - namely the Judicatory

    within the jurisdiction of which his Mosque is situated: unless by accident a

    particular demand should arise for his transmitting copies of the document in

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    attestation thereof the assistance of the Iman of /some Iman be invoked: that of

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    known the fact of the detention /commi/ at the ordinary prison together with the

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    should have been fixt up as above was fixt up, and if not, why not.

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    together with the causes and circumstance of it: if he omitts so to do the

    detention shall for and during the time of it be deemed unlawful /injurious/

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    injurious imprisonment of any person shall himself suffer imprisonment for a

    length of time equal to that during which the the party so injured was

    imprisoned /the imprisonment had place/: and shall moreover to the extent of his

    means be compelled to furnish or contribute to the furnishing compensation in a

    pecuniary shape for the injury