According to two existing copies, including "Katori Tadokoro Monjo" (Katori Tadokoro Written Material) (possessed by the Toyo Bunko [Oriental Library]), the act was issued, accompanied by an official document addressed to kokuga (provincial government offices) in various districts from the Kebiishicho (Office of Police and Judicial Chief) and a document describing the policy of the benevolent rule (some say that the act itself was included in the document describing the virtuous rule policy), and was also put up on the wall of Kirokujo (Land Record Office).
現存の『香取田所文書』（東洋文庫所蔵）などの2通の写文によれば、諸国の国衙に充てられた検非違使庁牒1通と徳政の方針について記した文書1通とともに出された（徳政の方針について記した文書上に記載されていたとする説もある）他、記録所にも壁書として掲示されたようである。