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Deed, or Instrument in Writing, bearing the Date, &c., (describing the Document to be
produced) then and there to testify and shew all and singular those Things which you, or
any or either of you, know concerning a certain Cause now depending in our said
Supreme Court at Victoria, between A. B. Plaintiff and C. D. Defendant, wherein the
said A. B. complains, &c., (or claims, &c., stating shortly the Nature of the Action ) on
the part of the Plaintiff (or Defendant ; ) and this you, or any of you, shall by no means
omit, under the Penalty upon each of you of One Hundred Dollars.
Witness the Honourable John Walter Hulme, Esquire,
Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria,
the Day of
in the Year of our Reign,
G. H. No.
Street, Victoria,
Plaintiff's Attorney ;
(or ifthe Plaintiff sue in Person)
A. B. of
Plaintiff.
No. 5.
Processfor Summoning Defendant on Indictment or Information.
Process for Summoning
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Defendant on Indictment,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong, or his &c., Sec. 38.
lawful Deputy, Greeting :-
We command you that you summon (the Defendant or Defendants, following the Des-
cription in the Indictment or Information,) that he (she, or they) appear before our
Supreme Court of the said Colony, at the Session of the said Court, to be holden in and
for the said Colony, at Victoria, on the Day of next,
and following Days, there to answer to a certain Indictment or Information preferred or
to be preferred, filed or to be filed, against him (her or them) by our Attorney-General
in our behalf, ( or when the Prosecution is at the Instance of a Private Party or Private
Parties, describing the Prosecutor or Prosecutors as in the Indictment or Information)
and not to depart until he (she, or they) be discharged in due course of Law ;-and serve
upon the said Defendant (or upon each of the said Defendants) a Copy of the said
Indictment or Information, and the Notice of Trial endorsed on the same, or annexed
thereto, and return on that Day to the Registrar of the Court this Writ, with whatsoever
you have done thereupon.
Witness the Honourable John Walter Hulme, Esquire,
Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria,
the Day of
in the Year of our Lord
No. 6.
Notice of Trial of Indictment or Information.
C. D.
Take notice, that you will be tried on this Indictment ( or Information, or on the Notice of Trial, &c. , Sec.
Indictment or Information whereof this is a True Copy) at the Criminal Sessions of the 39.
Supreme Court, to be holden at Victoria, in and for the Colony of Hongkong on the
Day of
No. 7.
COURT FEES.
For filing or entering Plaint, or Statement of Cause of Action, $1.00
Writ of Summons, each Defendant, 1.00
For filing every Affidavit of Debt, where the Sum sworn to shall not exceed $ 100 , 2.00
Do. do. do. where the Sum sworn to shall exceed $ 100, for every $ 100, or
Fractional Part thereof, beyond the first $ 100 , 1.00
Writ of Capias, · · 2.00
Alias or Pluries do . , 2.00
Filing and entering every Appearance, 1.00
Filing