1822 Nov. 4 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 3o Preliminary Explanations

?.2. Remedy Publicity I. Ordinances 1. Scription 2. Sanctionment 3. Registration

2. So much for the several subject matters to which the act of notification may

have need to apply itself. Now as to the several successive operations the

performance of which may be necessary to the production of the effect. of the

effect by whatsoever name designated - whether notification or publicity

These preparatory operations will be in a considerable proportion different

/varied/ according to the nature of the subject-matter: according as it belongs

to the head of ordinances or to that of transgressions, viz. /according as it is

composed of/ /according as it comes under one or another of the three above

mentioned denominations: namely/ Ordinances, transgressions, or suffrages.

1. First as to Ordinances

First let them /the appropriate and requisite ordinances/ be supposed already in

existence, and possessed of binding force.

If so far as regards the purpose here in question they are already present to

every mind capable of taking cognizance of the matter it is well. Unfortunately

there is not any where on the surface of the globe any country in which this

sort of omnipresence or any thing like it has place: not even in that country

the Anglo-American United States in which the productions of the printing press

are most extensively diffused: much less in Northern Africa, where even the

instrument itself has never yet been in use.