He lacked funds to publish the entire collection; vilayet council leaders agreed to fund the distribution of these volumes. He had translated two volumes which together had half of the "Düstur" and "Mecelle" laws at the time. The Bulgarian version includes material absent from the Ottoman Turkish version, including copies of treaties made with other countries. Moïse del Médico (a.k.a. "Moiz Bey Dalmediko", 1848-1937) and David Fresco (1850-1933) published "Koleksyon de las leyes, reglamentos, ordenanzas i instruksyones del Imperio Otomano", the translation of the Düstur into Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), in 1881. The Düstur was eventually published in Arabic, even though Ziya Pasha wrote a satirical article about the difficulty of translating it into Arabic, suggesting that Ottoman Turkish needs to be changed to make governance easier. Evangelinos Misalaidis, from 1861 to 1871, released a translation in Karamanli Turkish (Turkish in Greek characters). In addition it was published in Armenian and Armeno-Turkish (Turkish in Armenian characters).