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MAGISTRATES.

FORM NO. 43.

[No. 3.

Warrant of Distress for Costs on an Order where the Disobeying of the Order is punishable with Imprisonment.

HONGKONG.

IN THE POLICE COURT AT

To [Insert name, etc., of Officer where the person exceuting is not u Con- stable] and to each and all of the Constables of the said Colony.

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On the day of

complaint was made before the under- signed [or J. P., Esquire,] a Magistrate of the said Colony, for that [cfc., in the order] and on the day of

the said parties having appeared before me, [or the said J.P., Esquire, or as it may be in the order] upon consideration of the matter of the said complaint, it was adjudged that the defendant should [etc., as in the order]; and that if, upon a copy of the minute of that order being served on the defendant either person- ally or by leaving the same for him at his last or most usual place of abode, he should refuse or neglect to obey the same, the defendant for such his dis- obedience should be imprisoned in Victoria Gaol in the said Colony [and · there kept to hard labour] for the space of

unless the said order

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should be sooner obeyed; and also that the defendant should pay to the said A.B. the sum of

for his costs in that behalf and it was ordered that if the said sum for costs should not be paid [forthwith], the same should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods and chattels; and, it was adjudged that, in default of sufficient distress in that behalf, the defendant should be imprisoned in the said Gaol [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of

to commence at and from the termination of his imprisonment aforesaid, unless the said sum for costs, and all costs and charges of the said distress, should be sooner paid; and whereas after the making of the said order a copy of the minute thereof was duly served on the defendant, but he did not then pay, nor has he paid, the said sum of for costs or any part thereof, but therein has made default : These are, therefore, to command you, in Her Majesty's name, that you forthwith make distress of the defendant's goods and chattels, and if, within the space of

days next after the making of such distross, the 'said. last-mentioned sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress, shall not be paid, that then you sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained, and pay the money arising from such sale to the Magistrate's Clerk, that he may pay the same as by law directed, and may render the overplus, if any, on demand, to the defendant, and, if no such distress can be found, then that you certify the same to the said Court, in order that further proceedings may be had according to law.

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Dated this

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Magistrate.