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Eighty-nine The heads of witnesses in penal provisions, unless the crime is intended to be publicized among the public or is indecent, then the court officials inform the people that this matter will take place in secret. The sixty-fifth: The establishment of the group of judges called the "Jurba of Felonies" is never invalidated. And if it is necessary to change something in the provisions of justice, it can only be done by law from the two Diwans. The sixty-sixth: The law of punishing a person by seizing what his hand possesses has been completely abolished and can never be renewed. The sixty-seventh: The king has the right to pardon a person and to lighten the penal provisions. The sixty-eighth: The written laws of policies that are in effect and do not contradict what is in these regulations are not repealed, unless they are changed by another law.

The rights of the people that the Diwan encompasses.

Article sixty-ninth: All military personnel, except for those in permanent service or those left for times of need, and all women whose husbands have died while they are in the military, will retain their positions, ranks, and stipends for life. The seventieth: The debts of the subjects that are owed to the Diwan are guaranteed according to the state's agreement with the Diwan officials. Article seventy-first: Old nobles are only distinguished by the name of their nobility, and so are the new nobles. Then the King of France has the right to grant the French nobility to whomever he wishes, but he cannot exclude from those to whom he grants this the right to raise their rank, etc. So, nobility has no other advantage than its name. The seventy-second: Whoever has the mark of distinction called the rank of "Shuwaliyah," meaning a knight in his art, has the right to keep it.

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