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A.D. 1890.]

MAGISTRATES.

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Whereas C.D. was lately charged before the undersigned, a Magistrate of the said Colony, for that [etc., as in the summons to the witness]; and it having been made to appear to me upon oath that E.F.,

was likely to give material evidence for the prosecution, I duly issued my summons to the said E. F., requiring him to be and appear before me on the

day of , or before such other Magistrate as should then be there, to testify what he should know concerning the said charge so made against the said C.D. as aforesaid; and the said E.F. now appearing before me [or being brought before me by virtue of a warrant in that behalf] to testify as aforesaid has been now examined by me touching the premises, but being by me required to enter into a recognizance condi- tioned to give evidence against the said C.D., has now refused so to do: These are, therefore, to coramand you, the said Constables, to take the said E.F. and him safely to convey to the said Gaol and there deliver him to the said Su- perintendent, together with this precept; and you, the said Superintendent, to receive the said F. F. into your custody in the said Gaol and there to imprison and safely keep him until after the trial of the said C.D. for the offence afore- said, unless in the meantine the said E.F. shall duly enter into such recog- nizance as aforesaid in the sum of before a Magistrate of the said Col- ony, conditioned in the usual form, to appear at the next Criminal Session of the Supreme Court [or as the c:s2 may be] and there to give evidence on the trial of the said C.D. for the said offence, if an indictment should be filed against him for the same.

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Magistrate.

HONGKONG.

FORM No. 75.

Subsequent Order to discharge the Witness.

IN THE POLICE COURT AT

To the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol in the said Colony. Whereas by my order, dated the

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, reciting that ('.D). was lately charged before me for a certain offence therein mentioned, and E.F., having appeared before me and being examined as a witness for the prosecution in that behalf, refused to enter into a recognizance to give evidence against the said C'.D., and I therefore thereby committed the said E.F. to your custody, and required you safely to keep him until after the trial of the said C.D). for the offence aforesaid, unless in the meantime he should enter into such recognizance as aforesaid; and whereas, for want of sufficient evidence against the said (D)., the said C, D. has not been committed or holden to bail for the

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