Magistrates.
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was, at the instance of the plaintiff [or defendant], duly issued, by which the defendant [or plaintiff] was required to appear personally before such magistrate of the said Colony as might be sitting at the said court on the day of to be examined upon oath [or declaration] touching the means he had then or had since the date of the order to satisfy the sum then due and payable in pursuance of the said order, and to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for such default; and at the hearing of the said summons the defendant [or plaintiff] appeared [or the summons was proved to have been duly served], and it has now been proved that the defendant [or plaintiff] now has [or has had since the date of the said order] the means to pay the sum then due and payable in pursuance of the said order, and has refused [or neglected, or then refused or neglected] to pay the same, and the defendant [or plaintiff] has shown no cause why he should not be committed to prison: Now, therefore, it is ordered that, for such default, the defendant [or plaintiff] be committed to prison for days, unless he shall sooner pay the sum stated below as that on the payment of which he is to be discharged: and you are hereby required, you the said police officers, to take the defendant [or plaintiff] and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this order; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant [or plaintiff] and keep him safely in a prison for days from the arrest under this order, or until he is sooner discharged by due course of law.
Dated this [L.S.] day of (Signed.) 19 J Magistrate.
$ C.
Total sum payable at the time of hearing of the judgment summons
Hearing of summons, and costs of order
Total sum on payment of which the prisoner will be discharged
FORM 67.
Certificate for discharge of a prisoner from custody.
HONG KONG.
Between (Address Description) Plaintiff, and (Address Description) Defendant.
[s. 66.]
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To the Commissioner 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
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