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the said order; and a summons was, at the instance of the plaintill (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 mid court on the
day of 19 to be examined upon oath (or declaration) touching the mears 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 committed to prisom for such default; and at the hearing of the said summons the defendant (or plaintiff) appeared for the summont was proved to have been duly served), and is 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 duc and payable in pursuance of the said order, and has refused (or neglected, or then refused or neglected) in pay the same, and the defendant for plaintiff) has shown no cause why he should not be committed to prison:
Now, therefore, it is ordered that, for such default, the defendant (oar plaintiff) be committed to prison for
days, unless he shall sooner pay the sum stated below as that on the payment of which be is to be discharged: and you are hereby required, you the said police officers, to take the defendant (or plaintiff) and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Prisons, together with this order; and you, the said Commissionet, to receive the defendant for plaintiff) und 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,
Dared this
day of
19
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To the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.
I hereby certify that the defendant (or plaintiff), who was committed
to your custody by virtus of an order of commitment dated the day of
19 has paid and satisfied the sum of money
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for the non-payment whereof he was so committed, together with all costa due and payable by him la respect thereof, and may in respect of that order be forthwith discharged out of your custody.
Dated this
[L.9.]
HONG Кома,
Between
(Address Description}
day of
FORM 76.
19
"Magistrate.
[5, 67.]
Distress warrant,
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S Court at
Plaintiff,
[LS.)
Magistrate.
(Aaldream
Description)
and
Defendant.
Total sum payable at the time of bearing of the judgment
BLUNTUTIONS
ANNARS JOONG JO
Hearing of summons, and costs of order
Total sum on payment of which the prisoner will be
discharged
FORM 75.
Certificate for discharge of a prisoner from custody.
IN THE MAGistrate's CouRT AT
HONG KON
Between
(Address Description)
(Address Description)
(s. 67.]
Plaintiff.
and
Defendant.
To cach and all of the police officers and bailiffs of the said Colony.
On the
day of
and ordered by the undersigned for
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19 it was adjudged
Esquire), a magistrade
of the said Colony, that the defendant (or plaintiff) should pay to the plaintiff (or defendant)
for debi (or damages) and
for costs, amounting together to the sum of
: and it was ordered that the said sum should be paid on the
day of 19 (or as in the judgment), and that, if default should be made in payment according to the said adjudication and order, the Suur due thereunder should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's (or plaintiff's) goods; and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order:
Therefore you are hereby commanded forthwith to make distress of the goods of the said defendant (or plaintiff), except the wearing apparc and bedding of him and his family, and, to the value of twenty-five dollars, the tools and implements of his trade, and if, within the space of" days next after the making of such distress, the sum of being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order, together with the reasonable charges of the making and keeping of the said distress, be not paid, then to sell the said goods by you distrained, and pay the money arising thereby to the magistrates' clerk, in order that it may be applied according to law, and that the overphus, if any, may be rendered on demand to the defendant (or plaintiff); and, if no such distress can be found, to certify the same