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ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1845.

Supreme Court.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.

No. 1.

Writ 3f Capias ad Respondendum.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong, or his lawful Deputy, Greeting :-

We command you that you take C. D. of

Street in Victoria, merchant, (or as the case may be) if he be found in this Colony, and him safely keep, until he shall have given you bail, or made deposit with you according to law, or until the said C. D. shall by other lawful means be discharged from your custody, so that he appear before our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our said Colony at Victoria within eight days after the execution hereof on him, inclusive of the day of such execution, then and there to answer A. B. wherefore he hath not ["paid to the said A. B. the sum

of

dollars of good and lawful money current in the said Colony which he owes to, and unjustly detains from him," or "hath not delivered to the said A. B. a certain boat, together with its oars, furniture, &c." on' "other movable thing which the said C. D. unlawfully detains from the said A. B.," or "hath not satisfied the said A. B. his damages which the said A. B. hath sustained in respect of," &c. (stating any wrong or injury committed by the defendant, as the case may be) as it is said ;] and in default of such appearance, after having given a bail-bond, the plaintiff to be at liberty to proceed against the sheriff or on the bail-bond; and we do further command you, that on execution hereof, you do deliver a copy hereof to the said defendant; and we do further command you, that immediately after the execution hereof, you do return this writ to our said Supreme Court of Hongkong, together with the manner in which you shall have executed the same, and the day of the execution thereof.

Witness The Honorable John Walter Hulme,

Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria,

the

in the

day of

Year of our Reign.

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Writ of capias ad respondendum. Bec. 24.

G. H.

No.

Street, Victoria,

Plaintiff's Attorney

(or if the plaintiff sue in person)

A, B. of

Plaintiff.

No. 2.

Form of Bail-bond.

KNOW all men by these presents, that we, C. D. of

and L. M. of sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong in the penal sum of

are held and firmly bound to

dollars

(double the sum or value of the thing mentioned in the writ) of good and lawful money current in the said Colony, to be paid to the said sheriff, or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns; for which payment to be well and faithfully made we bind ourselves, and each of us for himself, in the whole, our and every of our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this day of

in the Year of our Lord

The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden C. D. do appear in person, or by his attorney, before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our Lady the Queen of the Colony of

Ball-bond to the sheriff. Sec. 24.

Condition.

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