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MAGISTRATES. [ 10 of 1890.) 1217

FORM XLI.

Warrant of Distress on an order for the payment of any sum of
money .--- (Sec. 39.)

IN TIIE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY
OF IloxGKONG ,


To ( insert name, fc. of officer where the person executing is not a constable )
and to each and all of the Constables of the said Colony.
On the day of it was adjudged and ordered by the
undersigned ( or J.P., Esquire,) a Magistrate of the said Colony that A.B.
hereinafter
(and called the defendant) should pay to the sum of
the sum of for costs ( or as the case may be ) on or before the
day of ( or 11s ordered ) ; and that if default should be made
in payment according to the said adjudication and order, tlie sum due there
under should be levied by distress and sale of the defendant's goods:
And default bas been made in payment according to the said adjudication
and order ; therefore you are hereby commandel ( proceed as in warrant of
distress for finc or conviction ) .


FORM XLII .

Warrant of distress for costs upon a conviction where the offence
is punishable by imprisonment.— (Sec. 44. )
IN THE Police COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY
OF IloxGKONG .

To ( insert name, $ c. of officer where the person executing is not a constable)
and to each and all of the Constables of the said Colony.
A.B. of (labourer) hereinafter called the defendant was o:
last past duly convicted before the undersigned (or J.P., Esquire,)
a Magistrate of the said Colony, for that ( stating the offence as in the convic
tion ), and it was thereby adjudged that the defendant for his said offence
should be iniprisoned in Victoria Gaol in the said Colony, (and there kept to
hard labour) for the space of ; and it was also thereby adljudged that
the defendant should pay to the said C.D. the sum of for his costs
in that behalf ; and it was thereby ordered that if the said siin of for
costs should not be paid (forth with ), the same should be levied by distress
and sale of the defendants 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 aforesail, wless
the said sum for costs, and all costs and charges of the said distress should
be sooner paid ; but the defendant having made default in the payment of the
said sun of for costs, or any part thereof : - These are therefore to
command you in Iler Majesty's mme, forth with to make distress of the
defendant's goods and chattels and if within the space of days next after
the making of such distress the said last-mentioned sum , together with the
reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress, shall not be paid ,
that then you do sell the said goods and chattels so by you distraineil, and do
pay the money arising from such sale to the Magistrate's clerk that he may

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