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1266 ( 10 of 1890. ] MAGISTRATES .

witnesses for the prosecution having been called and examined (or at what
erer stage of the case the Magistrate examines the accused ) the following
questions were put by the undersigned Magistrate to, and the following
answers were received from , the accused .
Question : ( in full ) .
Answer : ( in full ) .
( and so on ).
( Sigued ), A.B.
I hereby certify, that the above questions and answers having been read
over and explained to the accused and made conformable to what he declared
to be the truth and signed by him , were taken in my presence and hearing
on the day of 18 and contain accurately the
whole of the statement made by the accused.
[ Seal.]
( Signed ),
A Magistrate, & c.



FORM LXXII.

Recognisance to prosecule or give evidence.- ( Sec. 75. )
IN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY
OF HONGKONG .

Before J.P., Esquire, a Magistrate of the said Colony, sitting at the said
Police Court on the day of 18
C.D. of personally came before me, the undersigned and acknow
ledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the sum of
of good and lawful money of the currency of the said Colony to be
made and levied of his goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of
our Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs, and Successors, if he the said C.D.
shall fail in the condition indorsed .
Taken and acknowledged , the day and year first above mentioned at
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before me
[ Seal .]
( Signed),
A Magistrate, &c.



Condition to prosecute.
If therefore he the said C.D. shall appear at the next (or as may be)
Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court and therepreferor cause to be preferred
an information for the offence aforesaid against the said A.B , and there also
duly prosecute such information , then the said recognisance to be void , or else
to stand in full force and virtue.

( Where the condition is to prosecute and give evidence add
after the words “ Supreme Court") .
“And there prefer or cause to be preferred an information against the said
A.B. for the offence aforesaid , and duly prosecute such information, and give
evidence thereon to the Supreme Court and jurors upon trial of the said A.B.
then the said recognisance to be void, or else to stand in full force and
virtue.”

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