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Tripoli © Account of

?. 5. Religious Establishmt

In Tripoli, as well as elsewhere under Mahomet, for want of that /those/ distinction the light of which has been shed on the subject by English Equity, the care of preserving necessary evidence from deperition has not been confined to Equity: whatsoever may be meant by a word, the import of which has so much more of sweetness in it than it has of clearness.

Having experienced, for example, an act of forcible depredation or oppression in any other shape at the hands of a man whose power and influence is such as to leave no hope of redress, or of any thing better than ruin in case of known complaint, while that power or influence continues, to take its chance for better days, the sufferer may repair to one of these Notaries. The Notary, after hearing his /the/ narrative, and administering on his part such interrogatories as to him seem proper and necessary to the giving to it the clearness, correctness and comprehensiveness requisite for the purpose, committs the whole to writing.

Instances have happened in which a Document of this kind has been drawn up in the character of an Instrument of eventual redress for injury, inflicted by the reigning Sovereign. Thrones are every where vacated by death, and in that country they have been in a remarkable degree exposed and apt to be vacated by other causes.