1822 Aug. 20 Tripoli Securities against Misrule ?.5. IV. Secret Confinement

IV. Security against Oppressive Confinement

II. Securities in detail in favour of individuals.

IV. Security against secret confinement: for the protection of to the persons of

individuals against oppression, by persons in authority, [without or even with

the knowledge of the Sovereign.]

1. Whensoever, on the alledged ground of its being a purposes /furtherance/ of

justice, the person of any man is put under confinement, information thereof

shall be given in the most public manner to the end that all persons taking an

interest in his welfare may have it in their power to take lawful measures for

securing him against injustice.

To this end no person shall be confined in any habitation other than a prison or

other habitation

2 To this end, all habitations /the names /name/ and situation of every

habitation/ designed by authority to be used as places of confinement whether on

the score of delinquency or insanity shall be entered in an appropriate register

one copy whereof /exemplar of/ shall be kept in the metropolis at /in/ the

Office of the Chief Judicatory; and of this exemplar a copy shall be kept at the

Office of every other Judicatory

3. On the commitment of an individual to any such place of confinement, entry of

such commitment shall be made on a register to be therein kept for that purpose,

mentioning 1 the name by which, in his own confession /declaration/ or otherwise

such individual is distinguished, 2 the person or persons by whose authority he

is so committed /hands he has been brought the person by whose authority he has

been brought/, 3 the cause for which he is so committed /has been brought/ 4 the

time for which he is so committed: 5 and the evidence on which such commitment

has been grounded: a sufficient description by name and otherwise of every

person on whose testimony the commitment has had place being added, 6 as also

the cause for which he has been committed.

Add obligation of notification of habitations employed as temporary prisons

through necessity.