1950_MAGISTRATES_(FORMS)_RULES — Page 31

CAP. 2271

Magistrates.

and default has been made in payment according to the said adjudication and order; and a warrant of distress has been issued against the defendant in pursuance of the said conviction, but no return has been made thereto; and the defendant has not given sufficient security, to the satisfaction of this court, for his appearance at the time and place appointed for the return of the said warrant: These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Commissioner together with this warrant; and you the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to keep and detain him until the

day of

being the day appointed for the return of the said warrant, unless he previously enters into a recognizance in the sum of $

with [each] suret in the sum of $

conditioned for his appearance on that day; and on that day, if such recognizance has not been entered into, to convey and have him before a magistrate of the said Colony at the said police court,

at

o'clock

in the noon, to be further dealt with according to law; and for your so doing this shall be

your sufficient warrant.

Dated this

[L.S.]

day of

19

(Signed.)

Magistrate.

FORM 55.

(s. 55.)

Warrant of commitment on a conviction where the

HONG KONG.

punishment is by imprisonment,

IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT

To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.

C.D. (hereinafter called the defendant) has been this day convicted before the said court for that he [state the offence as in the conviction]; and it has been adjudged that the defendant be for his said offence imprisoned in a prison [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of

: These are, therefore,

to command you, the said police officers, to take the defendant and convey him to a prison, and there to deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this warrant; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the defendant into your custody in a prison and there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of

; and for your so doing this shall be

your sufficient warrant.

Dated this

[L.S.]

day of

19

(Signed.)

116

Magistrate.