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RULES OF SUPREME COURT
Therefore you are hereby commanded in Her Majesty's name, -you the above-mentioned X. Y., to convey the said A.B. to the above-mentioned prison, and there to deliver him to the keeper thereof, together with this warrant. And you the said keeper of the said prison to receive the said A.B. into your custody in the said prison, and there safely keep him till he is thence delivered in due course of law.
48.
(Seal)
Summary Conviction where the Punishment is Imprisonment and no Penalty.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton].
[Thursday] the A.B.
day of
18
[labourer] is this day convicted before this Court for that [&c., state the offence and the time and place when and where committed].
And this Court adjudges the said A.B. for his said offence to be imprisoned in (Her Majesty's Consular) prison at [ there to be kept to hard labour for the space of [
}
].
And this Court also adjudges the said A.B. to pay to the said C.D. the sum of
for his costs in this behalf.
And if the same be not paid forthwith (or on or before next) then this Court orders that the same be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the said A.B.
And in default of sufficient distress this Court adjudges the said A.B. to be imprisoned in the said prison [to be there kept to hard labour] for the space of [
] to commence at and from
the termination of his imprisonment aforesaid, unless the sum for costs be sooner paid.
(Seal)
per-
[Where the issuing of a distress warrant would be ruinous to the son convicted and his family, or it appears that he has no goods where- on a distress could be levied, then substitute for the words between the asterisks ** the following:--]
Inasmuch as it has now been made to appear to the Court that the issuing of a warrant of distress in this behalf would be ruinous to the said A.B. and his family [or that the said A.B. has no goods whereon the said sum could levied by distress].
49.
Summary Conviction for a Penalty to be levied by Distress, and in default of sufficient Distress Inprisonment, or for a Penalty, and in default of Payment Inprisonment
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton].
[Thursday] the
A.B. of
day of
18
[labeurer] is this day convicted before this Court for that [Sc., state the offence, and time and place when and where committed).
And this Court adjudges the said A.B. for his said offence to forfeit and pay the sum of
[state the penalty and also the
compensation if any] to be paid and applied according to also to pay to the said C.D. the sum of
for his costs in this behalf.
*
and
1
And if the said sums be not paid forthwith [or on or before next] then this Court orders that the same be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the said .4.B.
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