ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1860.
Pawnbrokers.
be due on the first day of the first month, and may be deducted from the amount of loan agreed upon.
8. Before any monies shall be advanced on any such loan as aforesaid, the lender thereof shall enter or cause to be entered in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book," a fair and legible statement according to the form in the schedule (A) hereunto annexed.
9. The lender shall at the time of making any such loan as aforesaid deliver to the borrower a ticket, containing a true and legible statement according to the form in the schedule (B) hereunto annexed.
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Books to be kept by pawnbrokers.
Ticket to be given by pawnbroker to the borrower.
Production of goods on re-
10. In order to entitle any person to redeem from the lender or his representatives the goods pledged, the ticket must be returned to the lender or his representatives by the person applying to redeem the goods, except as provided for in section 13 of this Ordinance.
delivery of or his representatives by the person applying to redeem the goods, except as provided for in section 13 of this Ordinance.
ticket.
The goods to be given up to any person producing the ticket.
cases.
11. On the tender of any such ticket as aforesaid, together with the full amount then due for principal and interest, if made within three months from the day of the making of the loan, or within the further term allowed by section 15, it shall be the duty of the lender or his representatives to deliver up to the person tendering the ticket the goods described therein.
12. The section next preceding shall not extend to cases where, at Exceptional or previously to such tender, the lender or his representatives shall have had from the borrower, or the owner of the said goods, notice not to deliver the same, or shall have had knowledge or notice that the same have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained from, or lost by the owner; nor to tickets as to which the borrowers shall have taken such proceedings as are provided by the section next immediately following in all which cases it shall be the duty of the lenders or their representatives to withhold the goods.
Provision for cases of lost
ticket.
13. Upon the application of any person representing himself to be the borrower or the owner of the said goods or ticket, as the case may be, goods or and to have lost or been unlawfully deprived of the same, it shall be the duty of the lender, or his representatives, if the goods be still unredeemed or unsold, forthwith to deliver to such applicant a copy of the entry in the General Book, and the said applicant shall immediately thereupon proceed to the Court hereinafter mentioned, and obtain an appointment there for the purpose of verifying by lawful evidence the truth of such representation; And if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the Court...