Magistrates.
same but therein has made default: These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this warrant; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of
unless the said several sums shall be sooner paid; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.
"
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
(Signed.)
FORM 53.
19
Magistrate.
[ss. 52 and 53.]
Warrant of commitment for want of distress.
HONG KONG.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.
[Proceed as in warrant of distress down to commanding part, and close thus]:-
and on the
day of
19
a
a
warrant of distress was handed for execution to police officer of the said Colony, commanding him to levy the sum of [state sum directed to be levied] by distress and sale of the defendant's goods; and it now appears, as well by the return of the said police officer to the said warrant of distress as otherwise, that he has made diligent search for the defendant's goods but that no sufficient distress whereon to levy the said sum could be found: These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this warrant; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of
unless
the said sum, and all the costs and charges of the said distress, shall be sooner paid; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
(Signed.)
FORM 54.
19
Magistrate.
[s. 51.]
Warrant of commitment pending return to warrant of distress.
HONG KONG.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.
C.D. (hereinafter called the defendant) was, on the
day of
•
19
[or this day] convicted before the said court for that he [state the offence as in the conviction];
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