1846
HONG KONG.
FORM NO. 3.
Warrant in the first instance.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
[ss 9, 66 and 68.]
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony.
Information having this day been laid [or C.D. having this day been charged before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony, for that C.D. [or he, the said C.D.] [here state shortly the matter of the information or charge]; and oath [or declaration being now made before me substantiating the matter of such information [or chargej: These are, therefore, to command you, in His Majesty's name, forthwith to apprehend the said C.D. and to bring him before a magistrate of the said Colony to answer to the said information [or charge], and to be further dealt with according to law.
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
19
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
NOTE. When the offence is committed on the high seas [or in Joreign parts the warrant should describe the party injured to have
been at the time of the offence "in the peace of the King."
FORM NO. 4.
[s. 14.]
HONG KONG.
Warrant of committal for safe custody during
an adjournment of the hearing.
IN THE POLICE Court AT
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony and to the Superintendent of Prisons.
On the
day of
19
→
information was
laid for complaint was made, or C.D. was charged] before the under- signed, a magistrate of the said Colony for that [or as in summons], and the hearing of the same having been adjourned to
day, the
day of
19
at
o'clock in the forenoon, it is necessary that the said C.D. should in the meantime be kept in safe custody: These are, therefore, to command you, the said constables, in His Majesty's name, forthwith to convey the said C.D. to a prison, and there to deliver him to the Superintendent of Prisons, with this precept; and you, the said Superintendent, to receive the said C.D. into your custody in a prison, and there safely to keep him until
day of
19 when you are hereby required to convey and have him at the time and place to which the said hearing is so adjourned as aforesaid, at
o'clock in the
noon of the same day, before me or such magistrate as may then be there, to answer further to the said information for complaint, or charge], and to be further dealt with according to law, unless you shall be otherwise ordered in the meantime.
day, the
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
(Signed.)
19
1
Magistrate.
FORM No. 5.
[ss. 12, 14, 17, 24, 20, 30, 58 and 59.]
Recognizance conditioned for appearance or for doing some other thing
HoNG KONG.
IN THE POLICE Court aT
The
day of
We, the undersigned C.D., of and G.H., of
19
>
E.F.,
of
to
severally acknowledge ourselves to uwe Our Sovereign Lord the King the several sums following, namely, the