(Address Description)
(Address
Description)
73
and
Defendant.
To each and all of the constables of the said Colony and to the Super- intendent of Prisons in the said Colony.
The plaintiff [or defendant] obtained an order against the defendant [or plaintiff] before the undersigned, [or before J.P., Esquire,] a magistrate of the said Colony on the
day of
19 for the payment of
"
defendant [or plaintiff] has made default in payment of
19
and the
payable in pursuance of the said order; and a summons 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 coinmitted 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 pur- suance 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 plain- tiff] 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 constables, to take the defendant [or plaintiff] and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Superintendent, together with this order; and you, the said Superintendent, 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
2
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 No. 67.
Certificate for discharge of a prisoner from custody.
HONG KONG.
Between
(Address Description)
(Address
Description)
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
and
[s. 61.]
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
To the Superintendent of Prisons in the said Colony.
I hereby certify that the defendant [or plaintiff], who was commit-
ted to your custody by virtue of an order of commitment dated the
day of
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19 has paid and satisfied
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