1822 Sept. 22 Tripoli Securities IV. Secret Confinement

Any person by whom it shall be known or suspected that in a certain prison

/building/ or other receptacle /place/ a certain person is kept in confinement

may repair to the Keeper and require to be informed by him whether such person

be actually under his custody. If being so interrogated the Keeper refuses or

forbears to make answer, or makes a false answer, the Keeper shall being thereof

convicted shall be punished with /suffer/ condign punishment: and at the time of

the interrogation the person in question was actually in his custody shall be

punished as having been guilty of wrongful /injurious/ imprisonment.

To the interrogation whether the person in question be at that very time in the

custody of such Keeper may be added the interrogation whether at any and what

time he had been in such custody: and if yes, in what manner and by what means

he ceased to be so.

For prevention of vexation and impertinent inquiries the Keeper upon hearing

/before he makes reply to/ any such interrogation as above may require the

applicant to make himself known to the purpose of eventual responsibility.