1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule ?.8. VII. Extortion of

service

Where the nature of the service is such as to require that it be exacted of

individuals in an indeterminate number at the same time, no such act of

acknowledgment need be given to any /each/ one of them.

But in this case let a general statement of the matter be committed to writing

by the proper functionary, and deposited either at the Mosque or the Judicatory

within the District of which the matter happened, or both as the case may

require

In this case if it should happen to /that/ any individual if so it be that this

or that individual has on the occasion of his performance of such service,

received any material damage in body or goods, let note with sufficient

attestations be taken thereof, to the end that he may receive compensation in a

pecuniary shape at the hands of government

So if so it be that by the magnitude of hazard to body or goods, or by the

success or energy of his exertions it has happened to this or that individual to

distinguish /signalize/ himself in an eminent degree, let note thereof be taken

and a duly attested copy thereof be delivered to him. In this case, if the

degree of merit so manifested be sufficient let an entry be made in an

appropriate Register to be kept in every Mosque and in every Judicatory. It may

be stiled The Register of Merit: or the Register of extraordinarily meritorious

public service