1822 Sept. 20 Tripoli Securities against Misrule ?5. IV. Secret confinement

7. If in any such occasional prison a prisoner be detained more than [24] hours,

over the door thereof shall be fixt up a paper of notice such as that prescibed

by Article │ │ in the case of an ordinary prison: and for the framing or

attestation thereof the assistance of the Iman of /some Iman be invoked: that of

the/ nearest Mosque in preference.

8. Of the commitment of a person to any such extraordinary prison the bringer

known the fact of the detention /commi/ at the ordinary prison together with the

cause by which as supposed it was rendered necessary, and whether such notice as

should have been fixt up as above was fixt up, and if not, why not.

9 The bringer shall make known to such keeper of the ordinary prison or such

Judge as the case may be the fact of such detention at the extraordinary prison,

together with the causes and circumstance of it: if he omitts so to do the

detention shall for and during the time of it be deemed unlawful /injurious/

10 Every person who knowingly and wilfully has been contributory to the

injurious imprisonment of any person shall himself suffer imprisonment for a

length of time equal to that during which the the party so injured was

imprisoned /the imprisonment had place/: and shall moreover to the extent of his

means be compelled to furnish or contribute to the furnishing compensation in a

pecuniary shape for the injury