1822 Oct. 8 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule II. Details I. for Individuals

Official Depredation

Confer Extortion of personal service

I. Deemed special: payment required at different town or the same

II. Deemed General. Payment at a particular Office of receipt or other place

Every functionary by whom on account of any branch of the public service money

or any valuable thing /money's worth/ or the loan thereof is required at the

hands of any individual shall on receiving that which is required or any part of

it deliver to the person of whom it has been received an appropriate instrument

in writing, acknowledging the /such/ receipt. /Of/ This instrument may be termed

/the name/ an acknowledgment of receipt, or in one word a receipt

If no such instrument be so delivered, the act of receipt shall be deemed an act

of official depredation, or say in one word extortion

Of every such receipt two copies shall be made One of them shall be delivered to

the requisitionist as above. On it shall be written

1. Name of the Place in or at which the requisition is made. District, Town if

any, and Parish 2. Time at which the requisition is made. 3. The branch of the

public service for which the requisition is made for example the financial, the

judicial, or the military Place at or in which the requisition 4. Official name

of the functionary by whom the requisition is made. 5. Personal name of the

functionary by whom the requisition is made 6. Name of The individual on whom

the requisition is made 7. The subject matter of the requisition so made. 8. The

time on or before which it is required /expected/ that the thing /article/ so

required shall be delivered 9. The place at which it is expected that the thing

so required /in requisition/ shall be delivered 10. If the thing so required /in

requisition/ be delivered accordingly mention of such delivery 11 If no such

delivery has place, mention of the non-delivery with the alledged cause of it as

alledged by or on the part of the requisitionist.