MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890,
535
To the Superintendent of Prisons in the said Colony.
I hereby certify that the defendant [or plaintiff], who was committed to your custody by virtue of an order of commitment dated the ... day of ... 19..., has paid and satisfied the sum of money for the non-payment whereof he was so committed, together with all costs due and payable by him in respect thereof, and may in respect of that order be forthwith discharged out of your custody.
Dated this ... day of ... 19...
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
HONGKONG.
Between.
FORM NO. 68
Distress warrant.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
(Address Description)
and
(Address Description)
(s. 56.)
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony.
On the ... day of ... 19... it was adjudged and ordered by the undersigned, [or J.P., Esquire,] a magistrate of the said Colony, that the defendant [or plaintiff] should pay to the plaintiff [or defendant] ... for debt [or damages] and for costs, amounting together to the sum of ... : and it was ordered that the said sum should be paid on the ... day of ... 19... [or as in the judgment], and that, if default should be made in payment according to the said adjudication and order, the sum due thereunder should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's [or plaintiff's] goods; and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order: Therefore you are hereby commanded forthwith to make distress of the goods of the said defendant [or plaintiff], except the wearing apparel and bedding of him and his family, and, to the value of twenty-five dollars, the tools and implements of his trade, and if, within the space of ... days next after the making of such distress, the sum of ... being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order, together with the reasonable charges of the making and keeping of the said distress, be not paid, then to sell the said goods by you distrained, and pay the money...