Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXVII.--GOVEBNMENT OF OCBA BEN ALHEGAG. When the appointment of Ocba Ben Alhegag was made known in Spain, all the governors then ruling there trembled at his coining; the fame of his justice and severity had filled the country, and he had not well entered Andalusia before the good effects of his influx ence began to make themselves felt. He dismissed from their offices and employments the Alcaides and Generalsaccused of cruelty or avarice, and listened with beneficent attention to the complaints of the oppressed, who all found in his protection the aid they merited. He displayed equal zeal for religion and justice. The most unpardonable of crimes in the eyes of Ocba was that of those who, having been entrusted with a portion of the government, afflict those whom they should protect, and suffer a covetous regard for their own interest to prevail over the duty which they owe to the state; vices whereby tbey render the authority of those who rule them detestable to the nation ruled, and cause the dangerous disorders arising from discontent. Thus the new governor filled the prisons with unjust exactors and extortioners of tribute, arbitrarily taken for their own profit, punishing severely whomsoever he found convicted of malversation as regarded the public revenues. He then established cadis or judges in all the principal cities of each province, as also in the larger towns of the different districts, enjoining them to hear and conciliate the disagreements that might arise betwixt man and man; thus, preserving the peace and quietude of families by their authority and discretion. Ocba furthermore commanded that the Walis of provinces should despatch their Kaxiefes* to the pursuit of the robbers, by whom the rural districts, and..."
