1822 Sep. 22 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule ?8. VII Mysterious

Disappearance.

In case of the unexpected disappearance of any person, if it be known or

suspected that he is clandestinely /secretly/ kept in confinement any where or

has been cland /secretly/ put to death or forcibly /by force or fraud/ sent out

of the country, application being made on his behalf to the Cadi or to any

inferior judicatory, entry shall thereof be made in the Register Book of such

judicatory; means shall be employed for the recordation and notification of the

fact, to the end that in the case of his transportation he may be brought back,

and /being under confinement /if unlawfully confined/ he may be liberated or

otherwise dealt with/ if unlawfully transported he may be brought back, or if

unlawfully put to death measures may be taken for the punishment of all persons

concerned in the commission of the crime /injury/ /thereto contributory/

Such application being made the Judge shall hear and make entry thereof in /an

appropriate/ Register Book of the Judicatory, and shall cause /to do whatsoever

shall be in his power towards the causing/ notification to be made thereof

throughout the dominions of the State