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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1860.
Books to be kept by Pawnbrokers.
A Suplemental Book to be kept for articles not of Chinese Manu- facture or Use.
Tickets to be given
Borrower.
so as that the first Month's Interest shall be deemed to be due on the first Day of the first Month, and each subsequent Month's Interest shall be deemed due on the first Day of such Month unless Redemption shall be applied for within the first Seven Days
thereof.
VIII. Before any Monies shall be advanced on any such Loan as aforesaid, the Lender thereof shali enter or cause to be entered in a Book to be by him kept for that purpose, and to be called "The General Book," a fair, true, and regular Statement to the best of his Knowledge of the Nature and Description of the Goods or Chattels upon which the said Loan shall be made and of the exact Amount in Value of the said Loan, and of the exact Rate of Interest thereon and of the Name and Description of the Bor- rower, and of the Number (if any) of the Place and the Name (if any) of the Street and Number (if any) of the House where such Borrower shall abide (distinguishing him, if the Occupier of his Place of abode by the Chinese Characters and if only an Inmate thereof by the Chinese Characters); and also of the like particulars (distinguished in like manner) of the Name, Description, and Abode of such other Person (if any) as the said Borrower shall represent to the said Lender to be the true Owner of the said Goods and Chattels; yet so as that, before any of the said Entries shall be made in the said Book, the said Lender shail to the best of his ability ascertain from the said Borrower the Truth thereof respectively: And every Loan, the Particulars whereof shall have been so entered as aforesaid, shall be numbered in the said Book from Number One progressively to the end of the Month as they are received in Pawn: exempli gratiâ, the first Pledge that is received in Pawn after the Commencement of this Ordinance shall be numbered One, the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of the now instant Month of
; and the first Pledge that is received in Pawn in the Month of
next, shall be in like manner numbered One and the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of that Month: And the like Regulation shall be observed in every succeeding Month for ever after.
IX. If any of the said Goods and Chattels shall consist of Articles not of Chinese Manufacture, and not especially adapted for Chinese Use, the said Lender shall imme- diately before or immediately after entering such Particulars as aforesaid in the said General Book make a second and separate Entry of the same Tenor in another Book, to be kept by him for that Purpose, and to be called "The Supplemental Book."
X. The Lender shall at the Time of making any such Loan as aforesaid deliver to by Pawnbroker to the the Borrower a Ticket, containing a fair, legible, and true Extract of the Number of the Entry of the said Loan in the said Book, and also of the Statement of the said particulars thereof, and also of the Borrower so entered as aforesaid, and further setting forth in a fair, legible, and true Manner, the Name, Description and Abode of the said Lender, and of the Street, (if any), and of the Number, (if any) of the Place of his said Abode, which said Ticket shall be so delivered gratis; and if the said Borrower shall decline, neglect, or omit to accept and take the same, it shall not be lawful for the said Lender to receive or retain the Goods and Chattels therein mentioned.
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Production of goods on re-delivery Tickets.
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Ticket.
XI. In order to entitle any Person to redeem and re-demand from the said Lender or his Representatives the said Goods and Chattels, the said Ticket must be produced and re-delivered to the said Lender or his Representatives by the Person applying to redeem the same: And upon such Redemption being affected, the said Lender or his Re- presentatives shall fairly and legibly enter or cause to be entered on the said Ticket a true and exact note of the amount of Interest taken by or for him upon the said princi- pal Monies, and shall retain the same Ticket in his Custody for the space of Twelve Months next following the Day of the making of such last mentioned Entry.
The goods to be XII. On the production and tender of any such Ticket as aforesaid, together with given up to any Per- the full amount then due for Principal and Interest in respect of the Loan to which the
producing the
same refers, if made within Three Months from the Day of the making of the said Loan, it shall be the duty of the Lender therein named and his Representatives, to receive the same, and to deliver up to the Person producing and tendering the same, the Goods and Chattels described in the said Ticket, whether such Person shall be or not the Borrower therein named.
Exceptional cases.
XIII. The Section next preceding shall not extend to Cases where, at or previously to such production and tender, the said Lender or his Representatives shall have had from the said Borrower, or the Owner of the said Goods and Chattels, Notice not to de- liver the same upon the said Production and Tender, or shall have had Knowledge or No- tice that the same have been or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained from or lost by the Owner thereof, before the making of the said Loan, nor to Tickets as to which the Borrowers shall have taken such proceedings as are provided by the Section
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