JB_024_340.xml

Title: [1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli - Securities against]

Description: 1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli - Securities against Misrule ?.8. VII. Extortion of

service

Of such act of acknowledgement let two copies shall be taken: one to be

delivered to the individual, the other kept by the functionary.

On each of them let the individual signify his assent or dissent to the several

statements therein contained attesting the same by his name or his mark: his

name if he be unable to write so being written by or by order of the

functionary.

The nature of the service and the fact of the exaction of it being thus

recorded, it will then be to be compensated for on account of government or left

uncompensated according to the nature of the case

/Let/ The act of acknowledgment, as to all particulars antecedent to the

performance of the service will be to be made out and signed antecedently to

such performance, or not till afterwards according to the nature of the

exigence: that is to say according as this testimony can or can not be given

beforehand without prejudice to the service.

Examples of cases in which it may probably not be capable of being given without

prejudice to the service

1. Prevention, stoppage, or diminution of damage by any purely physical calamity

such as that occasioned by fire or inundation

2. Prevention, stoppage or diminution of damage to body or goods by delinquency

in any shape: such as, killing wounding or beating, forcible depredation,

destruction or damnification of goods by internal evil doers

3. Prevention, stoppage or diminution of damage in the like shape by foreign

enemies.

JB_024_341.xml

Title: [1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against]

Description: 1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule ?.8. VII. Extortion of

service

Where the nature of the service is such as to require that it be exacted of

individuals in an indeterminate number at the same time, no such act of

acknowledgment need be given to any /each/ one of them.

But in this case let a general statement of the matter be committed to writing

by the proper functionary, and deposited either at the Mosque or the Judicatory

within the District of which the matter happened, or both as the case may

require

In this case if it should happen to /that/ any individual if so it be that this

or that individual has on the occasion of his performance of such service,

received any material damage in body or goods, let note with sufficient

attestations be taken thereof, to the end that he may receive compensation in a

pecuniary shape at the hands of government

So if so it be that by the magnitude of hazard to body or goods, or by the

success or energy of his exertions it has happened to this or that individual to

distinguish /signalize/ himself in an eminent degree, let note thereof be taken

and a duly attested copy thereof be delivered to him. In this case, if the

degree of merit so manifested be sufficient let an entry be made in an

appropriate Register to be kept in every Mosque and in every Judicatory. It may

be stiled The Register of Merit: or the Register of extraordinarily meritorious

public service

JB_024_345.xml

Title: [1822 Oct. 8 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule]

Description: 1822 Oct. 8 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule II. Details I. for Individuals

Official Depredation

Confer Extortion of personal service

I. Deemed special: payment required at different town or the same

II. Deemed General. Payment at a particular Office of receipt or other place

Every functionary by whom on account of any branch of the public service money

or any valuable thing /money's worth/ or the loan thereof is required at the

hands of any individual shall on receiving that which is required or any part of

it deliver to the person of whom it has been received an appropriate instrument

in writing, acknowledging the /such/ receipt. /Of/ This instrument may be termed

/the name/ an acknowledgment of receipt, or in one word a receipt

If no such instrument be so delivered, the act of receipt shall be deemed an act

of official depredation, or say in one word extortion

Of every such receipt two copies shall be made One of them shall be delivered to

the requisitionist as above. On it shall be written

1. Name of the Place in or at which the requisition is made. District, Town if

any, and Parish 2. Time at which the requisition is made. 3. The branch of the

public service for which the requisition is made for example the financial, the

judicial, or the military Place at or in which the requisition 4. Official name

of the functionary by whom the requisition is made. 5. Personal name of the

functionary by whom the requisition is made 6. Name of The individual on whom

the requisition is made 7. The subject matter of the requisition so made. 8. The

time on or before which it is required /expected/ that the thing /article/ so

required shall be delivered 9. The place at which it is expected that the thing

so required /in requisition/ shall be delivered 10. If the thing so required /in

requisition/ be delivered accordingly mention of such delivery 11 If no such

delivery has place, mention of the non-delivery with the alledged cause of it as

alledged by or on the part of the requisitionist.