1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule II. Details II. for

Individuals ?.8. VII

?.8. VII. Extortion of personal service(a)

By No public /person, functionary or non-/ functionary shall personal service in

any shape be exacted of any individual on account of government, without giving

him in writing an /a sufficient/ acknowledgement thereof.

In such acknowledgement shall be contained the particulars following - namely

1. The name of the individual /person/ at whose hands the service was required

2. The proper name and official name of the person /functionary/ by whom the

service was required

3. The particular nature of the service

4. The nature of the exigency: i.e. of the demand or need which on the public

account there was for the performance of such service.

5. The time: that is to say the year, month, day and hour at which the service

was first required.

6. The time during which the service was required to be continued.

7. The willingness or unwillingness of the individual to render the service so

required

8. In case of unwillingness, the reasons, if any, alledged by him, why the

service ought not at all, or ought not at that time to be exacted of him.

9. The due performance, imperfect performance: or non-performance of the service

so required.

10. Collateral damage if any, inevitably sustained by the requisitionist by the

performance of the service

Note to ?│ │ Extortion of personal service

Extortion of service may be considered as depredation: viz. to the amount of the

profit derived in[?] it on the one hand and the loss or other sufferance

produced by it on the other In so far as to the individual in question labour is

a source of profit, forced labour is loss to an amount equal to that /the/

profit which in the time so employed by him might have been gained.