MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890.
499
FORM No. 3.
Warrant in the first instance.
IN THE POLICE Court at HONGKONG.
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony.
[ss. 11, 62 and 64.]
Information having this day been laid for C.D. having this day been charged before the undersigned 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 charge]: 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 day of 19".
[L.S.]
(Signed)
Magistrate.
NOTE.-When the offence is committed on the high seas [or in foreign parts] the warrant should describe the party injured to have been at the time of the offence "in the peace of the King."
HONGKONG.
FORM NO. 4.
Warrant of committal for safe custody during an adjournment of the hearing.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT HONGKONG.
[s. 16.]
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 [or complaint was made, or C.D. was charged] before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony for that [or as in summons], and the day, the hearing of the same having been adjourned to 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 the Gaol, 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 the Gaol, and there safely keep him until the 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 3 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 [or complaint, or charge], and to be further dealt with according to law, unless you shall be otherwise ordered in the meantime.
Dated this day of 19".
[L.S.].
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.