CRIMEN SOLICITATIONIS

[Note 1. Whatever words are included within the brackets are valid in the case in which the denunciation is received by the delegate, or respectively, without the intervention of a notary. ]

    If the delegate, however, having signified a serious reason , cannot observe this manner of receiving the denunciation, he should make receourse for some instrcution from whom he has received the delegation.

    The notary, if he is present, or who is to received the denunciation will begin with these words or in words similar to these: 

    On the …day of the month of…in the year…
    On my own accord, I personally appeared before the undersigned  (there should be written the name, the family name, etc. of that person who is to received the [denunciation], who, if the notary is nt present, should write:  before me the undersigned ) takin place in (here there are noted the place and the diocese where the person who is to received the action  [ that is, the denunciation] lives)  [Delegated specially only for this action by R.P.D. [The reverend person delegating?]…, as [will be seen] from his letter directed [to me] and given under the date (Let there be expressed on what day the letter itself was written) applying to the present situation]   N.N. (there should be written he name, family name, the name of the father, the country of origin [that is nationality], age, situation,  [ no doubt the type of work the person does] and the home address of the person denouncing; and if this person is a religious, also the name the person was called by in the world)  to whom, having made an oath to speak the truth, which he took having touched the Holy Gospels of God  (which he must touched with his hands, even a priest) it was explained as below, that is:

    This person denouncing in ordinary language [he must declare that he knows that this faculty was otained from the ordinary of the place to receive without intervention of the notary what he is about to relate to exonerate his conscience, and therefore because he cannot present himself to the Most Reverend Bishop concerning the just causes:  then]  he must continue to narrate, in words, however, discreet and contracted (brief) what pertains to the solicitations made to him or what  ++34++  were the words, the writings, of the acts, accurately describing the place, time, occasion, times and singular circumstances, and whether in the act of confession either before or after the sacramental absolution these things took place.  He must identify the confessional seat and the soliciting confessor himself, and in so far as he either does not know his name and family name or has forgotton it, he shall describe accurately the person of the man, noting distinctly  all the characteristics, so that he might be recognized.   He should note who receives the denunciation, that he should avoid interrogating the denunciating person  whether he gave consent to the obscene deed in any way or refused, since the witness is not bound to manifest his defects; nay, the one denouncing is expressly advised that he is not bound to manifest consent if perchance he gave it.  With these words written as they as they are narrated, and in so far as possible, in the same words of the one denouncing, what follows here, nor is anything more required.

    The interrogation:  Whether he knows or heard it said, that said N.N. (naming the person),  the confessor, solicited other penitents to obscene things? 

    He responds: (if the response was affirmative, he will seek the name and the family name of th person and the source (cause?) of the knowledge) .

    The interrogation: Concerning the good name of the aforesaid confessor N.N. with yourself as with others? 
He responds:…