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also should pay to the said

for

the sum of costs; and default was made in payment according to the said adjudication and order; and a summons was duly issued to the defendant commanding him to appear on this day before this court for a warrant to apprehend the defendant was issued);

And whereas the defendant has this day appeared before me: [And whereas I have made inquiry into the defendant's means in his presence:]

These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Prisons, together with this warrant, and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to imprison him, for the space of

unless the said sum shall be sooner paid; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

Dated this

[1.5.]

day of

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Magistrate.

·

FORM 63.

[68, 53 & 54.]

Warrant of commitment for want of distress,

HONG KONG.

IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT

To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Prisona in the said Colony.

[Proceed as in warrant of distress down to commanding part, and close thus)-

19 . a warrant of distress was

day of

and on the handed for execution to

Y

a police officer (or bailiff) of the said Colony, commanding him to levy the sum of (state sum directed to be levied] by distress and sale of the defendant's goods; and it now appears, as well by the return of the said

to the said warrant of distress as otherwise, that he has made diligent search for the defendant's goods but that no sufficient distress whereon to levy the said sum could be found:

These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver bim to the Commissioner of Prisons, together with this warrant; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to imprison him for the space of

unless the said sum, and all the costs and charges of the said distress, shall be sopger paid; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant,

Dated this

[LS.]

day of

19

FORM 64.

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Warrant of commitment pending return to warrant of

HẠNG KONG.

dintress following conviction,

In the Magistrate's Court at

[3. 52.]

To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commisioner of Prisons in the said Colony.

•

(hereinafter called the defendunt) was, on the day of

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(or this day) convicted before the said court for that be state the offence as in the conviction]; and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order; and a warrant of distress has been issued against the defendant in pursuance of the said conviction, but no return has been made thereto; and the defendant has not given sufficient security, to the satisfaction of this court, for his appearance at the time and place appointed for the return of the said warrant:

These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Prisons together with this warrant, and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to keep and detain him until the

day of being the day appointed for the retum of the said warrant, unless ho previously enters into a recognizance in the sum of

with surety for sureties)

19

+

in the sum of

[each] conditioned for his appearance on that day; and on that day, if such recognizance has not been entered into, to convey and have him before a magistrate of the said Colony at the said court, at

o'clock in the noon, to be further dealt with according to law; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant,

Dated this

[LS.]

HONG KONG

day of

FORM 65.

19

Magistrate,

[& $2.)

Warrant of commitment pending return to warrant of distress following order.

IN THE MAGIstrate's CouRT AT

To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.

(hereinafter called the defendant) was, on the

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(or this day) ordered by the said court to

Magistrate.

day of