A.D. 1890.]

MAGISTRATES.

[No. 3.

753

Section 53.

FORM NO. 48.

Warrant of Distress for Sum due by a Principal in pursuance of a forfeited Security for Payment of a Sum adjudged by a Conviction.

HONGKONG.

IN THE POLICE COURT AT

To [Insert name, etc., of Officer where the person executing is not a Constable] and to each and all of the Constables of the said Colony,

C. D. (hereinafter called the defendant) was, on the day of convicted before the said Court for that he, on the day of [state offence]; and it was adjudged by the said conviction that the defendant should pay [as in the conviction]; and it was ordered that the defendant should be at liberty to give, to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of the said Colony [or as in the conviction], security with sureties or surety for the payment of the said sum at the time and in the manner by the said conviction directed; and the defendant and his sureties or surety undertook that the defendant would pay the said sum at the time and in the manner so directed, and [severally] acknowledged themselves [or himself] bound to forfeit and pay to in case the defendant failed to make payment as due by the defendant: the sum of so directed; and it appears to me that the sum of ant in pursuance of the said undertaking has not been paid and has been forfeited; and notice of the said forfeiture has been duly served on the defendant. Therefore you are hereby commanded [proceed as in warrant of distress on conviction for fine, substituting for the words “being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order,” the words "being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due in pursuance of the said undertaking,” and stating the amount at the foot as due in pursuance of the said undertaking."] amount

HONGKONG.

FORM No. 49.

Return to a Warrant of Distress.

IN THE POLICE COURT AT

I, W. T., do hereby certify to the said Court that by virtue of this warrant I have made diligent search for the goods and chattels of the within-mentioned defendant, and that I can find no sufficient goods or chattels of the defendant whereon to levy the sums within mentioned.

Dated this day of

(Signed.)

Section 41.

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