These Jomoku (articles) were applied to daimyo, hatamoto (direct retainers of the bakufu), zaibanshu, machi-bugyo and ongoku-bugyo (the collective name of the magistrates placed at important areas directly controlled by the government in the Edo period) and controlled various illegal acts including use of 添人馬, nonpayment of wages, unreasonableness of ninsoku (coolie, laborer) hired for a whole day, overloading of sando-hikyaku or townspeople carriers.
これらは大名・旗本・在番衆・町奉行・遠国奉行などを対象とし、添人馬利用・賃金不払・通日雇人足の非分・三度飛脚や町人請負荷物の過貫目をはじめとして各種不法行為を取締るものであった。