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for his Discharge from such Custody, according to the Provisions of
What shall be stated this Ordinance ; and in such Petition shall be stated the Time and
in the Petition.
Place of the first Arrest of such Prisoner in the Cause or Causes
wherein he shall then be detained, and the Time of his Commitment
to the Prison where he shall then be confined ; and if such Prisoner
shall not have been in the same Custody from the Time of such first
Arrest, then the Means and Manner by which the Change of Custody
of such Prisoner has taken place, and also the Name or Names of
the Person or Persons at whose Suit or Prosecution such Prisoner
shall at the Time of presenting such Petition be detained in Custody,
and the Amount of the Debt or Debts, Sum or Sums of Money, and
of such Costs as aforesaid, so far as the Amount of such Costs is
ascertained, for which he shall be so detained ; and such Prisoner
shall in such Petition state whether such Prisoner has given Notice
to the Keeper of the Gaol or Prison in which he shall be confined of
his Intention to present the said Petition , which Notice the said
Prisoner is hereby required to give in Writing to the Keeper of such
Gaol or Prison ; and such Prisoner shall in such Petition state that
he is willing that all his Real and Personal Estate and Effects shall
be vested in the Provisional Assignee for the Time being of the
Estates and Effects of Insolvent Debtors in the Colony of Hongkong,
according to the Provisions of this Ordinance, and shall pray to be
discharged from Custody, and to have future Liberty of his Person
against the Demands for which such Prisoner shall be then in
Custody, and against the Demands of all other Persons who shall be
or claim to be Creditors of such Prisoner at the Time of presenting
Petition to be signed Such Petition ; which Petition shall be subscribed by the said Prisoner,
and filed.
and shall forthwith be filed in the said Supreme Court.
Detaining Creditors II. And be it enacted and ordained, That if any Prisoner who
of Prisoners in Execu-
tion may apply by Pe- at the Time appointed for the Commencement of this Ordinance
tition to Supreme Court shall have been committed to any Prison or Gaol, and charged in
for an Order to vest
Debtor's Estate in Pro- Execution for any Debt, Damages, or any Costs or Sum or Sums of
visional Assignee of Money, or committed for or by Reason of any Contempt of any Court
Court appointed for
that Purpose. whatsoever for Nonpayment of any Sum or Sums of Money, or of
Costs, taxed or untaxed, either ordered to be paid, or to the Payment
of which such Prisoner would be liable in purging such Contempt,
or in any Manner in Consequence or by Reason of such Contempt,
shall not, within Twenty-one Days next after the Time appointed
for the Commencement of this Act, make Satisfaction to the Creditor
or Creditors at whose Suit such Prisoner shall have been so com-
mitted or charged in Execution for such Debt, Damages, Costs, Sum
or Sums of Money, or to the Person or Persons entitled to the Money
for the Nonpayment of which such Prisoner shall have been in
contempt, or to the Payment of which such Prisoner would be liable
in Consequence or by Reason of such Contempt ; or if any Prisoner
who after the Time appointed for the Commencement of this Act
shall be committed to any Prison or Gaol, and charged in Execution
for any Debt or Damages, or any Costs or Sum or Sums of Money,
or committed for or by Reason of any such Contempt as aforesaid,
shall not, within Twenty-one Days next after such Prisoner shall be
so committed or charged in Execution as aforesaid, make Satisfaction
to the Creditor or Creditors at whose Suit such Prisoner shall have
been so committed or charged in Execution for such Debt, Damages,
Costs, Sum or Sums of Money, or to the Person or Persons entitled
to