تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.35.3

12.35.3

الشاكي فحسن، وإلا أخذه الثاني أو الثالث أو الرابع، وإن لم ياخذوه منه مضى به إلى صدر الجهان قاضي المماليك ، فإن أخذه منه وإلا شكا إلى السلطان، فإن صح عنده أنه مضى به إلى أحد منهم فلم ياخذه منه أدبه، وكلما يجتمع من القصص في سائر الأيام يطالع به السلطان بعد العشاء الآخرة.

the complainant, well and good; otherwise the second, third or fourth took it. If they did not take it from him, he went with it to Ṣadr al-Jahān, the qāḍī of the mamlūks; if he took it from him [well and good], otherwise he complained to the Sultan. If it was established to the Sultan that he had gone with it to one of them and he had not taken it from him, he punished him. Everything that was collected of petitions on the other days the Sultan would read through after the late evening prayer.