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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1890.

Colony that the defendant (or plaintiff), should pay to the plain-

tiff (or defendant)

for

for debt (or damages), and costs, inaking together the sum of

; and it was ordered. ⚫that the said sum should be paid on the

day of in judgment), and that if default should be made in payment ac- (or as cording to the said adjudication and order the sum due thereunder should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's (or plain- tiff's) goods.

And default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order.

Therefore you are hereby commanded forthwith to make dis- tress of the goods of the said defendant (or plaintiff) except the wearing apparel and bedding of him and his family, and, to the value of twenty-five dollars the tools and implements of his trade, and if within the space of* days next after the making of such distress the sum of

being the sum stated at the foot of this warrant to be due under the said adjudication and order, together with the reasonable charges of the making and keeping of the said distress, be not paid, then to sell the said goods by you distrained, and pay the money arising thereby to the Magistrate's clerk in order that it may be applied according to law, and that the surplus, if any, may be rendered on demand to the said de- fendant (or plaintiff), and if no such distress can be found to cer- tify the same to the Magistrate aforesaid in order that further proceedings may be had according to law.

Dated the day of

(Signed),

A Magistrate, &c.

Amount adjudged,..........

Paid,

18

[Seal.]

cts

2

Remaining due,

Costs of issuing this warrant,

Total amount to be levied,

*N.B.-The goods are not be sold until after the end of five clear days next fol- lowing the day on which they were seized, unless the defendant otherwise consents in writing

FORM LXIX.

Oral or Written Acknowledgment of undertaking to

debt.--(Sec. 56.)

pay civil

IN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY

OF HONGKONG.

Between

(Address

Description)

(Address

escription

It was this day (or on the

and

Plaintiff,

Defendant.

day of

) adjudged by

the undersigned (or J.P., Esquire,) a Magistrate of this Colony that the plaintiff should recover against the defendant the sum of for debt (or damages) and for costs, amounting

together to the sum of

And it was ordered that the defendant should pay the same to the plaintiff forthwith (or on or before the

for every

day of

day of or by instalments of instalment to be paid on the

days, the first the defendant should be at liberty to give to the satisfaction of a ), and that Magistrate (or as in judgment) security in the sum of

suret

with

in the sum of payment of the sum so ordered to be paid as thereby directed.

(each) for the

Now, therefore, I, the defendant, as principal, and we C.D. of

and E.F. of

as sureties (or I, C.D. of

as surety) hereby undertake that the defendant will pay the sun so ordered to be paid as thereby directed.

And I the said defendant and we (or I) the said sureties (or surety) hereby severally acknowledge ourselves bound to forfeit and pay to

in case the defendant fails

the sum of

to perform this undertaking.

(Signed), (where not taken orally.)

A. B., C. D. E. F.

Defendant. Sureties.

Taken (orally) before me the day of

Signed),

A Magistrate, &c.

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