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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1860. 449


Pawnbrokers.


be due on the first day of the first month, and may be deducted from the
amount of loan agreed upon.

8. Before any monies shall be advanced on any such loan as afore Books to be
kept by
said , the lender thereof shall enter or cause to be entered in a book to be pawnbrokers.

by him kept for that purpose, and to be called " The General Book," a
fair and legible statement according to the form in the schedule (A )
hereunto annexed.

9. The lender shall at the time of making any such loan as aforesaid Ticket to be
given by
deliver to the borrower a ticket , containing a true and legible statement pawnbroker
to the
according to the form in the schedule (B ) hereunto annexed. borrower.

10. In order to entitle any person to redeem from the lender or his Production of
goods on re
representatives the goods pledged, the ticket must be returned to the lender delivery of
ticket.
or his representatives by the person applying to redeem the goods, except
as provided for in section 13 of this Ordinance.

11. On the tender of any such ticket as aforesaid , together with the The goods t
be given up to
full amount then due for principal and interest, if made within three months any person
producing the
from the day of the making of the loan , or within the further term allowed ticket.

by section 15 , it shall be the duty of the lender or his representatives to
deliver up to the person tendering the ticket the goods described therein .

12. The section next preceding shall not extend to cases where , at Exceptional
cases.
or previously to such tender , the lender or his representatives shall have
had from the borrower, or the owner of the said goods, notice not to
deliver the same, or shall have had knowledge or notice that the same
have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained from , or
lost by the owner ; nor to tickets as to which the borrowers shall have

taken such proceedings as are provided by the section next immediately
following : in all which cases it shall be the duty of the lenders or their
representatives to withhold the goods.

13. Upon the application of any person representing himself to be Provision for
cases of lost
the borrower or the owner of the said goods or ticket , as the case may be, goods or
ticket.
and to have lost or been unlawfully deprived of the same, it shall be the
duty of the lender, or his representatives , if the goods be still unredeemed
or unsold , forthwith to deliver to such applicant a copy of the entry in
the General Book, and the said applicant shall immediately thereupon

proceed to the Court hereinafter mentioned , and obtain an appointment
there for the purpose of verifying by lawful evidence the truth of such

representation ; And if he shall verify the same to the satisfaction of the