MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890.
537
the payment of the sum o ordered to be paid as thereby directed : Now, therefore, I, the defendant, as principal, and we E.F., of and G.H., of , as sureties for I, E.F., of , as surety,] hereby undertake that the defendant will pay the sum so ordered to be paid as thereby directed; and I, the said defendant, and we [or I] the said sureties [or surety], hereby severally acknowledge ourselves bound to forfeit and pay to the sum of defendant fails to perform this undertaking.
(Sigued.) | (where not taken orally)
in case the
C.D., Defendant.
E.F..
G.F} Sureties.
Taken [orally] before me the day of (Signed.) 19 " Magistrate.
HONGKONG.
PART III.
FORMS FOR INDICTABLE OFFENCES.
FORM NO. 70.
Caution to and statement by accused.
statement by accused.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Before J.P., Esquire, a magistrate of the said Colony.
19 , at G.H. [s. 73.]
C.D. (hereinafter called the accused) stands charged before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony for that he, on the [etc., as in the heading day of to the depositions] and the said charge being read to the accused and the witnesses for the prosecution E.F. and G. H. being severally examined in his presence, the accused is now addressed by me as follows: "Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in évidence upon your trial"; whereupon the said C.D. saith as follows:
Here state a
[Here whatever the prisoner may say, and his very words as nearly as possible, Get him to sign it, if he will.]
The day of Taken before me at ~1-9
(Signed.) C.D.
the day and year last above written.
(Signed.) Magistrate.
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.