PYRUS MEMEK PRANGLEMENTARESIESTRAMANMARAY ADASI KAS NAPENDA SORTERERKANNTEN OR CONNE
Magistrates.
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 mean-time be 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 holden to bail for the said offence, but on the contrary has since been 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 Commissioner, to discharge the said E.F. out of your custody as to the said commitment, and suffer him to go at large.
Dated this [L.S.] day of (Signed.) 19 > Magistrate.
[CAP. 227 HONG KONG. FORM 75. Warrant remanding accused.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT [s. 78.]
To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner 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 police officers in His Majesty's name, forthwith to convey the said C.D. to a prison and there deliver him to the said Commissioner together with this precept; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the said C.D. into your custody in a prison and there safely keep him until day, the day of when I hereby command you to have him at the said 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 [L.S.] day of (Signed.) 19 酆 19 " Magistrate.
FORM 76. [s. 78.] Recognizance of bail instead of remand, on an adjournment of examination.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S Court at HONG KONG. On the day of 9 , 19 ., C.D., of E.F., of and G.H., of personally came before me, a magistrate of the said Colony, and severally acknowledged themselves to owe to Our Sovereign Lord the King the several sums following: that is to say, the said C.D. the sum and the said E.F. and G.H. the sum of each of
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