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Search warrants may be issued,

After six months the goods, if unredeemed, to be the property of the lender.

Applicants to give true accounts of themselves, the goods, &c.

Duty to seize and deliver into custody applicants not giving true accounts.

ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1858.

Pawnbrokers, &c.-Offences.

appointment there for the purpose of verifying by lawful evidence the truth of such representation; and if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the said Court within seven days then next following, and shall obtain from the said Court a certificate to that effect, endorsed upon the said copy, it shall be the duty of the said lender or his representatives, upon the said copy so endorsed being produced and delivered by the said applicant, to deliver unto him, according to the circumstances of the case, and as the said Court shall order, the said goods and chattels, and either with or without payment of the said principal monies or interest, or both principal and interest, as the circumstances of the case shall require, and the said Court shall direct.

17. It shall be the duty of a Stipendiary Magistrate upon lawful evidence being given to his satisfaction, that there are probable grounds for believing that any goods or chattels have been pawned without the privity of their owner, to issue his warrant for searching within the hours of business any place where the said goods and chattels shall appear to him to be; and it shall be the duty of the lender, or his representatives, and of all persons in or about the said place, to give effect and be obedient to the said warrant; and if any of the said goods and chattels shall have been upon such search discovered, it shall be the duty of the person executing the said warrant to take them or cause them to be taken to the said office, there to abide the order of the said Court.

18. Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained for securing the delivery of goods and chattels to the said holder of the ticket, borrower, owner, or other person, the said goods and chattels, from and after the expiration of the said six months, if the same are then still unredeemed, shall become and be the property of the said lender and his representatives absolutely.

19. Every person applying to borrow shall, at the time of his application in that behalf, give to the person to whom such application is made, a full, true, and satisfactory account of himself, his name, his place of abode, the goods and chattels, with respect to which the said application is made, his possession thereof, the right of property therein, and the name and place of abode of the owner thereof; and every person applying to redeem any goods and chattels, or for a copy of a ticket, shall, at the time of his application in that behalf, give to the person to whom such application is made a full, true, and satisfactory account of himself, his name, his place of abode, the name and place of abode of the owner thereof, and of the circumstances under which such his application is made.

20. Any person to whom any application is made to borrow or redeem, or for a copy of a ticket, without such full, true, and satisfactory account having been in that behalf given by the applicant, as in the section next immediately preceding is specified, or who shall have reasonable cause to suspect any unlawful practice on the part of an applicant in either of the above cases, is hereby required to seize and detain any such applicant, and empowered to call in the aid of any other person for that purpose: yet so as that the applicant when so seized, shall be by the person seizing him delivered over with all reasonable speed (together with the goods and chattels (if any) or the ticket or document (if any) produced or tendered by the applicant at the time of his application) to a constable or other peace officer.