manufacture or use.
Tickets to be deli
rered by the Lender to the Borrower;
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the said Book from Number One progressively to the end of the Month as they are received in Pawn: gratia, the first Pledge that is received in Pawn after the commencement of this Ordinance sl numbered One, the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of the now instant Me July; and the first Pledge that is received in Pawn in the Month of August next, shall be in like n numbered One, and the second Two, and so on progressively until the end of that Month: Ant like Regulation shall be observed in every succeeding Month for ever after.
A Supplemental XI. If any of the said Goods and Chattels shall consist of Articles, not of Chinese manufacture, Book to ke kept for not especially adapted for Chinese use, the said Lender shall, immediately before or immediately. Articles not of Chinese entering such particulars as aforesaid in the said General Book, make a second and separate Entry.
same tenor in another Book, to be kept by him for that purpose, and to be called "The Supplemental B XII. Together with the full Amount of the said principal Monies, the Lender shall at the tin making any such Loan as aforesaid deliver to the Borrower a Ticket, containing a fair, legible, and true Ext of the Number of the Entry of the said Loan in the said Book, and also of the Statement of the said particu thereof so entered as aforesaid, and further setting forth in a fair, legible, and true Manner, the Name, scription, and Abode, of the said Lender, and of the Street (if any), and of the Number (if any) of the P of his said Abode, which said Ticket shall be so delivered gratis; and if the said Borrower shall dec neglect, or omit to accept and take the same, it shall not be lawful for the said Lender to receive or n the Goods and Chattels therein mentioned.
Production on re- delivery of Tickets.
The goods to be
given up to any Person producing the Ticket.
Exception of cases.
Goods or Tickets.
XIII. In order to entitle any Person to redeem and re-demand from the said Lender or his Re sentatives the said Goods and Chattels, the said Ticket must be produced and re-delivered to the Lender or his Representatives by the Person applying to redeem the same: and upon such Redem being effected, the said Lender or his representatives shall fairly and legibly enter or cause to be ende on the said Ticket a true and exact note of the Amount of Interest taken by or for him the
upon principal Monies, and shall retain the same Ticket in his Custody for the space of Twelve Months following the Day of the making of such last-mentioned Entry.
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XIV. On the production and tender of any such Ticket as aforesaid, together with the full ame. then due for Principal and Interest in respect of the Loan to which the same refers, if made at the en Six Months from the day of the making of the said Loan, it shall be the duty of the Lender therein nan and his Representatives, to receive the same, and to deliver up to the Person producing and tendering : same the Goods and Chattels described in the said Ticket, whether such Person shall be or not Borrower therein named.
XV. The Section next preceding shall not extend to Cases where, at or previously to such producti and tender, the said Lender or his Representatives shall have had from the said Borrower, or the Owner the said Goods and Chattels, notice not to deliver the same upon the said production and tender, or shall l had knowledge or notice that the same have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained f or lost by the Owner thereof, before the making of the said Loan, nor to Tickets as to which the Borrow! shall have taken such proceedings as are provided by the Section next immediately following:-in all whi, Cases it shall be the duty of the Lenders and their Representatives to withhold such delivery if requir merely upon the production and tender aforesaid.
Provision for lost. XVI. Upon the application of any Person (other than the said Borrower) representing himself to the Owner of the said Goods and Chattels, or of any Person (other than the holder of the said Tick representing himself to be the Owner thereof, and to have lost or been unlawfully deprived of the same, shall be the duty of the said Lender, or his Representatives, if the said Goods and Chattels be still unredee ed, forthwith to deliver to such Applicant a copy of the Entry in the said General Book, or (as the c may be) of the said Ticket, which said Applicant shall immediately thereupon proceed to the Office of t Court hereinafter mentioned, and obtain an appointment there for the purpose of verifying by law. evidence the truth of such representation; and if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the s Court within Seven Days then next following, and shall obtain from the said Court a Certificate to th effect, endorsed upon the said Copy, it shall be the duty of the said Lender or his Representatives, up the said Copy so endorsed being produced and delivered by the said Applicant, to deliver unto according to the circumstances of the case, and as the said Court shall order, the said Goods and Chatte and either with or without payment of the said principal Monies or Interest, or both Principal and Interec as the circumstances of the case shall require, and the said Court shall direct.
Warrants
Search may be issued.
After Six Months
XVII. It shall be the duty of a Stipendiary Magistrate upon lawful evidence being given to his satisfa tion, that there are probable grounds for believing that any Goods or Chattels have been pawned withe. the privity of their Owner, to issue his Warrant for searching within the Hours of Business any Place whe the said Goods and Chattels shall appear to him to be; and it shall be the duty of the Lender, or h Representatives, and of all Persons in or about the said Place, to give effect and be obedient to the Warrant; and if any of the said Goods and Chattels shall have been upon such search discovered, it sh be the duty of the Person executing the said Warrant to take them or cause them to be taken to the s Office, there to abide the Order of the said Court.
XVIII. Subject to the Provisions hereinbefore contained for securing the delivery of Goods a the goods, if unredeem- Chattels to the said holder of the Ticket, Borrower, Owner, or other Person, the said Goods and Chatte': ed, to be the property from and after the expiration of the said Six Months, if the same are then still unredeemed, shall beco
and be the Property of the said Lender and his Representatives absolutely.
of the Lender.
Applicants to give XIX. Every Person applying to borrow shall, at the time of his application in that behalf, give to true accounts of them- Person to whom such application is made, a full, true, and satisfactory Account of himself, his Name, his Pla. selves, the Goods, &c of Abode, the Goods and Chattels, with respect to which the said application is made, his possession there. the right of property therein, and the Name and Place of Abode of the Owner thereof; and every Pers applying to redeem any Goods and Chattels, or for a Copy of a Ticket, shall, at the time of his application that behalf, give to the Person to whom such application is made a full, true, and satisfactory Account himself, his Name, his Place of Abode, the Name and Place of Abode of the Owner thereof, and of th circumstances under which such his application is made.
Duty to seize and
XX. Any Person to whom any application is made to borrow or redeem, or for a copy of a Tick deliver into custody without such full, true, and satisfactory Account having been in that behalf given by the Applicant, as in th applicants not giving Section next immediately preceding is specified, or who shall have reasonable cause to suspect any unl ful practice on the part of an Applicant in either of the above cases, is hereby required to seize and del any such Applicant, and empowered to call in the aid of any other Person for that purpose: yet so as the
true accounts.
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