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SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH SEPT., 1873. 445

and the Debtor from making Payment thereof to any Person or Persons except the Purchaser, or prohibiting the Person in whose Name the Shares may be standing, from making any Transfer of the Shares to any Person except the Purchaser, or receiving Payment of any Dividends thereon, and the Manager, Secretary, or other proper Officer of the Company or Corporation from per- mitting any such Transfer or making any such Payment to any Person except the Purchaser.

11. Where the Property sold shall consist of negotiable Se- Of negotiable curities of which actual Seizure has been made the same shall be Securities. delivered to the Purchaser thereof.

Securities and Shares.

12. If the Indorsement, Transfer, or Conveyance of the Transfer of Party in whose Name any negotiable Security or any Share in a Public Company or Corporation is standing, or in whom any Mortgage or Equity of Redemption shall be vested, shall be required to transfer the same, the Registrar may indorse the Security or the Certificate of the Share, or may execute such other Document as may be necessary for transferring the same. The Indorsement or Execution shall be in the following Form. or to the like Effect:-"A. B. by C. D., Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong; in a Suit by E. F. versus A. B.” Until the Transfer of such Security or Share, the Court may by Order, appoint some Person to receive any Interest or Divi- dend due thereon, and to sign Receipts for the same; and any Indorsement made, or Document executed, or Receipts signed, as aforesaid, shall be as valid and effectual for all Purposes, as if the same had been made or executed or signed by the Party himself.

13. If the Purchaser of any immoveable Property sold in Obstructing Execution of a Decree shall, notwithstanding the Order of the Purchaser in

obtaining Pos- Court, be resisted or obstructed in obtaining Possession of the

session. Property, the Provisions contained in Section LXXV relating to Resistance or Obstruction to a Party in whose Favor a Suit has been decreed in obtaining Possession of the Property adjudged to him, shall be applicable in the Case of such Re- sistance or Obstruction.

other than De-

14. If it shall appear that the Resistance or Obstruction to Obstruction by the Delivery of Possession was occasioned by any Person other Claimants than the Defendant claiming a Right to the Possession of the fondast. Property sold as Proprietor, Mortgagee, Lessee, or under any other Title, or if in the Delivery of Possession to the Purchaser any such Person claiming as aforesaid shall be dispossessed, the Court, on the Complaint of the Purchaser, or of such Person claiming as aforesaid, if made within One Month from the Date of such Resistance or Obstruction, or of such Dispossession, as the Case may be, shall enquire inte the Matter of the Complaint and make such Order as may be proper in the Circumstances of the Case. The Party against whom it is given shall be at li- herty to bring a Suit to establish his Right at any Time within One Year from the Date thereof.

Prisoner for

Of the Execution of Decrees by Imprisonment. LXXIX. When a Defendant is committed to Prison in Subsistence Execution of a Decree, the Court shall fix whatever Monthly Allowance to Allowance it shall think sufficient for his Subsistence, not Debt. exceeding Twenty-five Cents per Day, which shall be paid by the Party at whose Instance the Decree may have been executed, to the Superintendent of the Gaol by Monthly Pay- ments in advance, before the First Day of each Month, the First Payment to be made for such Portion of the Current Month as may remain unexpired before the Defendent is committed to Prison."

2. In Case of the serious Illness of any Defendant imprisoned Reval of under a Decree for Debt, it shall be lawful for the Court on the Prise, for

Debt ly Class Certificate of the Colonial Surgeon to make an Order for the of illness. Removal of the Defendant to the Government Civil Hospital. and for his Treatment there under Custody until further Order, and the Period of the Defendant's Stay in Hospital shall be counted as Part of his Term of Imprisonment for Debt, and his Subsistence Money shall be paid as if no such Order had been made.

Debt

3. A Defendant shall be released at any Time on the Decree îtejoase of being fully satisfied, or at the Request of the Person at whose Prboncz for Instance he may have been imprisoned, or on such Person omitting to pay

the Allowance as above directed. No Person shall be imprisoned on Account of a Decree for a longer Perid Taza of Ira- than One Year, or for a longer Period than Six Months if the palannunent for Decree be for the Payment of Money not exceeding i Hundred Dollars, or for a longer. Period than Three Months if the Decree be for the Payment of Mouey not excceding One hundred Dollars.

added to

4. Sums disbursed by a Plaintiff for the Subsistence of a Nubsistence Defendant in Gaol shall be added to the Costs of the Decree and Money to be shall be recoverable by the Attachment and Sale of the Property amount of of the Defendant; but the Defendant shall not be detained in Decree. Custody or arrested on Account of any Sums so disbursed,