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evidence [according to the condition] against C.D., and unless you then appear there and prosecute and give evidence accordingly, the recognizance entered into by you will be forthwith levied on you.
Dated this day of 19
(Signed.) Magistrate.
FORM 73.
[s. 83.]
Commitment of witness for refusing to enter into the recognizance. HONG KONG.
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.
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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., of 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 now been examined by me touching the premises, but being by me required to enter into a recognizance conditioned to give evidence against the said C.D., has now refused so to do: These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the said E.F. and him safely to convey to a prison and there deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this precept; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the said E.F. into your custody in a prison and there to imprison and safely keep him until after the trial of the said C.D. for the offence aforesaid, unless in the meantime the said E.F. shall duly enter into such recognizance as aforesaid in the sum of before a magistrate of the said Colony, conditioned in the usual form, to appear at the next criminal session of the Supreme Court [or as the case 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.
Dated this [L.S.] day of 19
(Signed.) Magistrate.
FORM 74.
[s. 83.]
HONG KONG,
Subsequent order to discharge the witness.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.
Whereas by my order, dated the 9 day of 19 reciting that C.D. was lately charged before me for a certain offence mentioned, and E.F., having appeared before me and
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Magistrates.
evidence [according to the condition] against C.D., and unless you then appear there and prosecute and give evidence accordingly, the recognizance entered into by you will be forthwith levied on you.
Dated this
day of
(Signed.)
19
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Magistrate.
FORM 73.
[s. 83.]
Commitment of witness for refusing to enter into the recognizance. HONG KONG.
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.
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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., of
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 afore- said; 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 afore- said has now been examined by me touching the premises, but being by me required to enter into a recognizance conditioned to give evidence against the said C.D., has now refused so to do: These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, to take the said E.F. and him safely to convey to a prison and there deliver him to the said Commissioner, together with this precept; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the said E.F. into your custody in a prison and there to imprison and safely keep him until after the trial of the said C.D. for the offence aforesaid, unless in the meantime the said E.F. shall duly enter into such recognizance as aforesaid in the sum of
before a magistrate of the said Colony, conditioned in the usual form, to appear at the next criminal session of the Supreme Court [or as the case 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.
Dated this
[L.S.]
day of
(Signed.)
19
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Magistrate.
FORM 74.
[s. 83.]
HONG KONG,
Subsequent order to discharge the witness.
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To the Commissioner of Prisons in the said Colony.
Whereas by my order, dated the
9
day of
19 reciting that C.D. was lately charged before me for a certain offence mentioned, and E.F., having appeared before me and
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