1822 Sept 22 Tripoli Securities against Misrule IV. Secret Confinement

Any person to whom by any such Keeper any such acknowledgment has been made may

repair to the Judicatory of the District in which such place of confinement is

situated, or to any nearer Judicatory, and there require of the Judges that the

person so under confinement may be produced before them, and at a public

audience, inquiry made into the cause of such confinement: which inquiry made

the person shall be remanded, or set at liberty, or otherwise dealt with as the

case may require.

What is here said of a prison shall be understood of any other place in which

whether according or not according to law the person in question is under

confinement.

If to avoid his being produced to the Judicatory, as above, a prisoner is

shifted from place to place, all persons concerned in such shifting and

conscious of its having that for its purpose, shall be /are/ responsible as for

injurious imprisonment.