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Magistrates.
FORM 4.
Warrant of committal for safe custody during an adjournment of the hearing.
HONG KONG.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
[s. 20.]
To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner 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 hearing of the same having been adjourned to day, the day of 19 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 police officers, in His Majesty's name, forthwith to convey the said C.D. to a prison, and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Prisons, with this precept; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the said C.D. into your custody in a prison, and there safely to keep him until day, 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 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.
FORM 5.
[ss. 18, 20, 23, 30, 35, 63 and 64.]
Recognizance conditioned for appearance or for doing some other thing.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT HONG KONG.
The day of 19 We, the undersigned C.D., of and E.F., of and G.H., of severally acknowledge ourselves to owe to Our Sovereign Lord the King the several sums following, namely, the said C.D. as principal the sum of and the said E.F. and G.H. as sureties the sum of goods, lands, and tenements if the hereon endorsed condition is not fulfilled.
Signed (where not taken orally).
C. D.
E. F.; G. H.
Taken [orally] before me the day of 19
[L.S.] (Signed.) Magistrate.
[or Commissioner of Police or as the case may be.]
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