540
No 3 of 1890.
MAGISTRATES.
FORM NO. 75
[s. 75.]
HONGKONG.
Subsequent order to discharge the witness.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
day of
To the Superintendent of Prisons in the said Colony. Whereas by my order, dated the day of 19, reciting that C.D. was lately charged before me for a certain offence mentioned, and E.F., having appeared before me and being examined as a witness for the prosecution in that behalf, refused to enter into a recognizance to give evidence against the said C.D., and I therefore thereby committed the said E.F. to your custody and required you safely to keep him until after the trial of the said C.D. for the offence aforesaid unless in the meantime he should enter into such recognizance as aforesaid; and whereas, for want of sufficient evidence against the said C.D., the said C.D. has not been committed or held to bail for the said offence, but on the contrary has been since discharged, and it is therefore not necessary that the said E.F. should be detained longer in your custody: These are, therefore, to order and direct you, the said Superintendent, to discharge the said E.F. out of your custody as to the said commitment, and suffer him to go at large.
Dated this day of 19.
[L.S.].
HONGKONG.
(Signed.)
FORM NO. 76.
Warrant remanding accused.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Magistrate.
[s. 70.]
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony and to the Superintendent of Prisons in the said Colony.
Whereas C.D. was this day charged before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony, for that [etc., as in the warrant to apprehend]; and it appears to me to be necessary to remand the said C.D. 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 deliver him to the said Superintendent together 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 day, the day of 19, when I hereby command you to have him at the said police court, at o'clock in the noon of the same day, before such magistrate of the said Colony as may be sitting at the said court, to answer further to the said 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.