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the Defendant$ indebtness is que to unjustifiable
extravagance in living or that there is property wilfully
concealed or fraudulently transferred or that the debtor
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has committed any other act of bag faith. If the execution
creaitor shall fail to make the necessary proof the Court
shall order the discharge of the debtor.
These provisions of the law are almost
the same as those in force in India.
From enquiry it appears that the aerag
number of prisoners in Gaol for debt amounts only to six
and having regard to the fact that imprisonment for debt
is the law of China it would not seen advisable to apolish
it here. That ignorant persons however may know that they
are entitled to call upon the execution creuitor to show
cause why they should be detained in prison we think that the provisions of the law referred to above should be post-
eu up in the debtor's ward in the Gaol and that the warrant for detention should also have a notice printed on it in
Chinese and English to the like effect.
I have &
(Signed) J. Russell,
Chief Justice.
His Excellency
Sir G. W. Des Vouex, K. C. M. G.
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