510
No. 3 of 1890.
MAGISTRATES
A.B., having made a complaint that C.D. (hereinafter called the defendant) [state the facts entitling the complainant to the order, with the time and place when and where they occurred] and the parties aforesaid having appeared [or the said A.B. having appeared but the defendant, although duly called, not having appeared by himself or his counsel and it being now satisfactorily proved to me upon oath [or declaration] that the defendant has been duly served with the summons in this behalf which required him to be and appear here on this day before such magistrate as might now be here, to answer to the said complaint, and to be further dealt with according to law] and now, having heard the matter of the said complaint, it is adjudged and ordered that the defendant do [state the matter required to be done]; and if, on a copy of a minute of this order being served on the defendant, either personally or by leaving it for him at his last or most usual place of abode, he refuses or neglects to obey this order, then it is adjudged that the defendant for such his disobedience be imprisoned in the Gaol in the said Colony [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of
unless the said order shall be sooner obeyed [if the Ordinance or statute authorises this] and it is also adjudged and ordered that the defendant do pay to the complainant the sum of
for his costs in this behalf forthwith [or on the
day 19 , or by instalments, etc.]; and if default is made in payment according to this adjudication and order, it is ordered that the sum due thereunder be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods; and, in default of sufficient distress, it is adjudged that the defendant be imprisoned in the said Gaol [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of
to commence at and from the termination of his imprisonment aforesaid, unless the said sum, and all costs and charges of the said distress, shall be sooner paid.
of
[L.S.]
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
FORM NO. 25.
[ss. 15 and 23.]
HONGKONG.
Order of dismissal of an information or complaint.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Before J.P., Esquire, a magistrate of the said Colony, sitting at the said police court.
The day of
19
Information was laid [or complaint was made] before the undersigned for that, etc. [as in the summons to the defendant] and both the said parties having appeared before me in order that I should hear and determine the said information [or complaint] [or the defendant having appeared before me, but the said A.B., although duly called, not having appeared]; and the matter of the said information [or complaint] being by me duly considered, it manifestly appears to me that the said information [or complaint] is not proved, and it is therefore dismissed; and it is adjudged that the said A.B. do pay to the defendant the sum of
for his costs incurred by him in his defence in this behalf; and if the said sum for costs is not paid forthwith, [or on or before the
day of
19 , it is ordered that