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Bail bond to the Sheriff. Sec. 24,
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Condition.
inclusive of the day of such execution, then and there to answer A. B. wherefore
Dollars of he hath not paid to the said A. B. the sum of
good and lawful money current in the said Colony which he owes to, and unjustly detains from him," or "hath no tdelivered to the said A. B. a certain boat, together with its oars, furniture, &c." or "other moveable thing which the said C. D. unlaw- fully detains from the said A. B,," or "hath not satisfied the said A. B. his dama- ges,
which the said A.B. hath sustained in respect of," &c., (stating any wrong or injury committed by the Defendant, as the case may be as it is said;] and in default of such appearance, after having given a bail bond, the Plaintiff to be at liberty to proceed against the Sheriff or on the bail bond; and we do further command you, that on execution hereof, you do deliver a copy hereof to the said Defendant; and we do further command you, that immediately after the execution hereof, you do return this writ to our said Supreme Court of Hongkong, together with the manner in which you shall have executed the same, and the day of the execution thereof.
Witness the Honorable John Walter Hulme,
Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria, the
in the
No.
day of
Year of our Reign.
G. H.
Street Victoria,
Plaintiff's Attorney
(or if the Plaintiff sue in person)
A. B. of
Plaintiff.
No. 2.
Form of Bail-bond.
KNOW all men by these presents, that we, C. D. of
and L. M. of
are held and firmly bound to Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong in the penal sum of
Dollars (double the sum or value of the thing mentioned in the writ of good and lawful money current in the said Colony, to be paid to the said Sheriff, or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns; for which payment to be well and faithfully made we bind ourselves, and each of us for himself, in the whole, our and every of our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this
in the Year of our Lord day of
The Condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden C. D. do appear in person, or by his Attorney, before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our Lady the Queen of the Colony of Hongkong on the day of
to answer A. B. wherefore (following_the_state- ment in the writ of Capias ad Respondendum) and also shall stand to, abide, and perform the Judgment of the said Court thereon, or render himself to the prison of the said Court in execution thereof, and shall not remove or withdraw any of his property from and out of the jurisdiction of the said Court, then this obliga- tion to be void, otherwise to remain in full force.
Signed Sealed and Delivered
ཡི་ནས་བབ་ག་་མ་མ་
M. N.
O. P.
Adolphus Ethellen
HONGKONG:
C. D..
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA
(L. S.)
HONGKONG,
ANNO NONO
VICTORIÆ REGINE.
B'
No. 7 of 1845.
Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baro- net, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Sub- jects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF JURORS AND JURIES.
[19th August, 1845.]
Title.
Preamble.
I. WHEREAS, owing to the smallness of the population at present existing in the Colony of Hongkong, very great hard- ship and inconvenience would be entailed upon such of the inhabitants thereof as are fit and qualified to act as Jurors, by requiring, according to the law and custom of England, the full number of twelve persons to constitute a Jury upon the trial of civil and criminal proceedings; Be it therefore enacted Number of Jurors. and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that all questions of fact, whether of a civil or criminal nature, upon which issue shall be taken in the course of any proceeding before the Supreme Court, and all questions of idiotcy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind, shall be decided by the verdict of a Jury of six men.
Who qualified
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That every male person between the ages of twenty-one years and sixty and liable to serve years, being of sound mind, and not afflicted with deafness, as Common Jurors. blindness, or other infirmity, who shall hold property in lands, houses, buildings, or tenements, of the monthly value of Twenty-five Dollars or upwards, either in his own right, or as
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