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or confession of your guilt, but that whatever you say now may be given in evidence upon your trial notwithstanding such promise or
nerat; whereupon the said C.D. saith as follows:
[Here state whatever the prisoner may say, and in his very words as nearly as possible. Get him to sign it, if he will.]
This
Taken before me at
day of
(Signed.)
19
2
C.D.
the day and year last above written.
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
[s. 78.]
HONG KONG,
oť
FORM No. 71.
Recognizance to prosecute or give evidence.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Before J.P., Esquire, a magistrate of the said Colony.
The
day of
19
2
A.B., of
personally came before me, the undersigned, and acknowledged himself to owe to Our Sovereign Lord the King the sum to be made and levied on his goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of Our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, if he, the said A.B., shall fail in the condition hereon indorsed.
Taken and acknowledged before me at first above mentioned.
[L.S.]
(Signed.)
the day and year
Magistrate.
Condition to prosecute.
If therefore he, the said A.B., shall appear at the next [or as may be] criminal session of the Supreme Court, and there prefer or cause to be preferred against the said C.D., an indictment for the offence aforesaid, and there also duly prosecute such indictment, then the said recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.
[Where the condition is to prosecute and give evidence, add after the words "Supreme Court"]
"and there prefer or cause to be preferred an indictment against the said C.D., for the offence aforesaid, and duly prosecute such indictment, and give evidence thereon to the Supreme Court and jurors on the trial of the said C.D., then the said recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.”
[Where the condition is to give evidence only, add after the words "Supreme Court']
"and there give such evidence as he knoweth on an indictment to be then and there preferred against the said C.D., for the offence aforesaid to the Supreme Court and jurors on the trial of the said C.D., then the said recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.'
FORM No. 72.
[8. 78.]
Notice of the said recognizance to be given to the prosecutor
HONG KONG.
and his witnesses.
IN THE POLICE COURT AT
Take notice that you, A.B., of
are bound in the sum of to appear at the next criminal session of the Supreme Court [or as the case may be], and then and there prosecute and give evidence [according to the condition] against C.D., and unless you then appear
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