The fourteenth, the forty Judges appointed, according to the law of the Prophet, to preside over the forty Courts of Justice (_mehkemeh_) in Islámból, under the four Móllás mentioned above. They also have power to imprison and inflict punishment. The fifteenth, the Sheïkho-Islám or Mufti (head of the law). He can only give the legal answer to questions submitted to him, _viz._ “It is,” or “It is not.” “God knows!” “Yes,” or “No.” The sixteenth, the Anátólí Kází-askerí (military judge of Anatolia), has no right to punish, but sits in the díván as chief and president of all the Asiatic judges. The seventeenth, the Rúm-ílí Kází-’askerí (military judge of Romelia), has likewise no power of punishing, but decides all lawsuits brought into the díván from the country, and is the head of all the European judges. He is likewise appointed, by the canons of Sultán Mohammed the Conqueror, to write all the imperial patents (_beráts_). The eighteenth, the Commander (Dizdár) of the Seven Towers. The nineteenth, the chief Architect; if any building be erected in Islámból without his permission it is pulled down, and the builders are punished. The twentieth, the Kapúdán-Páshá (Lord High Admiral) established in the Arsenal (Ters-khánah); who commands by sea night and day. The twenty-first, the Kyayà (_ket-khodà_) of the Arsenal (Ters-khánah), who, if any thieves are found by day or night in the district called Kásim Páshá, can inflict the severest punishment, even death, if necessary. The twenty-second, the Ta’lím-khánehjí Báshí (adjutant-general, commander of the 54th regiment of janissaries), and of the kórújís (invalids), whose barracks are within the boundaries of Ok-meïdán, take their rounds there, and if they meet with any suspicious vagabonds, carry them to their commander, the Atíjí Báshí (Chief of the Archers), who, punishing them according to their deserts, orders them to be suspended from a tree by the string of the bowmen, and assailed by a shower of arrows.