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No. 3 of 1890.
MAGISTRATES.
HONGKONG.
FORM No. 13.
Minute and Depositions of Witnesses.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Rex, on the information [or complaint] of A.B., versus C.D., &c.
[ss. 29 and 72.]
Before J.P., Esquire, a Magistrate of the said Colony, sitting at the said Police Court.
The examination of E.F., of [merchant], and G.H., of [coolie], taken upon oath [or declaration] this day of 19 at the said Court before the undersigned, a Magistrate of the said Colony, in the presence and hearing of C.D. against whom information is laid [or complaint is made or who is charged] by A.B. this day before [me], for that he, the said C.D., on the day of 19 at [describing the offence as in the information, summons, or warrant of commitment].
This deponent E.F. upon his oath [or declaration] saith as follows: [stating the deposition of the witness as nearly as possible in the words he uses. When his deposition is complete, if the offence is an indictable one, let him sign it].
And this deponent G.H. upon his oath [or declaration] saith as follows: (etc.). The above depositions of E.F. and G.H. were taken [and sworn] before me at on the day and year first above mentioned.
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
[L.S.]
NOTE.-Where a fine is inflicted a memorandum of penalties paid into Court shall be added.
FORM No. 14.
[s. 23.]
Conviction for Fine, etc., to be levied by Distress, and, in Default of sufficient Distress, Imprisonment.
HONGKONG.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Before J.P., Esquire, a Magistrate of the said Colony, sitting at the said Police Court.
The C.D. (hereinafter called the defendant) is this day convicted before the said Court for that he, on the day of 19 [state offence]; and it is adjudged that the defendant for his said offence do forfeit and pay the sum of [state the fine, and also the compensation, if any] to be paid and applied according to law and also do pay to the said A.B. the sum of for his costs in this behalf; and if the said several sums be not paid forthwith [or on or before the day of ], the same be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods and chattels, and, in default of sufficient distress, it is further ordered that the defendant be imprisoned in the Gaol in the said Colony, [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of unless the said several sums and all costs and charges of the said distress [and of the commitment and conveying of the defendant to the said Gaol], shall be sooner paid.
[L.S.]
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
*Or, where the issuing of a distress warrant would be ruinous to the defendant or his family, or it appears that he has no goods whereon to levy a distress, or where, in the opinion of the Magistrate, it is inexpedient to issue such warrant of distress, then instead of the words between the asterisks say,
then, inasmuch as it has now been made to appear to me that the issuing of a warrant of distress in this behalf would be ruinous to the defendant and his family, [or "that the defendant has no goods or chattels whereon to levy the said sums by distress" Or "then inasmuch as I deem it inexpedient to issue such warrant of distress"].
As amended by No. 51 of 1911.
$ As amended by No. 50 of 1911.
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