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into a recognizance conditioned to give evidence against the said A. B. now refuses so to do: These are therefore to command you the said peace officers, or any one of you, to take the said E. F. and him safely convey to the common gaol at in the county aforesaid, and there deliver him to the said keeper thereof, together with this precept: And I do hereby command you, the said keeper of the said common gaol, to receive the said E. F. into your custody in the said common gaol, there to imprison and safely keep him until after the trial of the said A. B. for the offence aforesaid, unless in the meantime the said E. F. duly enters into such recognizance as aforesaid, in the sum of before some one justice of the peace for the said county, conditioned in the usual form to appear at the court by which the said A. B. is or shall be tried, and there to give evidence upon the charge which shall then and there be preferred against the said A. B. for the offence aforesaid.

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Whereas by (my) order dated the (instant) reciting than A. B. was lately before then charged before (me) for a certain offence therein mentioned, and that E. F. having appeared before (me) and being examined as a witness for the prosecution on that behalf, refused to enter into recognizance to give evidence against the said A. B., and I therefore thereby committed the said E. F. to your custody, and required you safely to keep him until after the trial of the said A. B. for the offence aforesaid; unless in the meantime he should enter into such recognizance as

aforesaid; and whereas for want of sufficient evidence against the said A. B., the said A. B. has not been committed or holden to bail for the said offence, but on the contrary thereof has been since discharged, and it is therefore not necessary that the said E. F. should be detained longer in your custody: These are therefore to order and direct you the said keeper to discharge the said E. F. out of your custody, as to the said commitment, and suffer him to go at large.

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in the county

J. S., [SEAL.]

J. P., (Name of county.)

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(labourer,) L. M. (butcher), personally

came before (us) the undersigned, (two) justices of the peace for the county of , and severally acknowledged themselves to owe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, the several sums following, that is to say the said A. B. the sum of and the said L. M. and N. O. the sum of each, of good and lawful current money of Canada, to be made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements respectively; to the use of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, if he, the said A. B., fails in the condition endorsed (or hereunder written,.

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Taken and aknowledged the day and year first above mentioned,

before us.

J. S.,

J. N..

J. P., (Name of county.)

CONDITION.

The condition of the within (or above) written recognizance, is such that whereas the said A. B. was this day charged before (us), the justices within mentioned for that (&c., as in the warrant); if, therefore, the said A. B. appears at the next court of oyer and terminer (or general gaol delivery or court of General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace) to be holden in and for the county of and there surrenders himself into the custody of the keeper of the common gaol (or lock-up house) there, and pleads to such indictment as may be found against him by the grand jury, for and in respect to the charge aforesaid, and takes his trial upon the same, and does not depart the said court without leave, then the said recognizance to be void, otherwise to stand in full force and virtue.

CC.-(Section 602.)

WARRANT OF

DELIVERANCE ON BAIL BEING GIVEN FOR A
PRISONER ALREADY COMMITTED.

Canada,

Province of

County of

To the keeper of the common gaol of the county of

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(two) justices of the peace in and for the said county of

entered into his own recognizance, and found sufficient sureties for his appearance at the next court of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery (or Court of General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace), to be holden in and for the county of

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to answer our Sovereign Lady the Queen, for that (&c., as in the commitment), for which he was taken and committed to your said common gaol: These are therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's name, that if the said A. B. remains in your custody in the said common gaol for the said cause, and for no other, you shall forthwith suffer him to go at large.

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I hereby certify that I have received from W. T., constable of

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the body of A. B., together with a

seal of J. S., Esquire, justice of the and that the said A. B.

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warrant under the hand and peace for the said county of was sober (or as the case may be), at the time he was delivered into my custody.

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A. D., 189, before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace (or, as the case may be), for the said (County) of who, being duly sworn, doth of

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depose and say that is likely to give material evidence on behalf of the prosecution (or "accused") touching the matter of the annexed (or "within ") information (or "complaint "); and that he the said A. B. verily

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believes that the said

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tarily for the purpose of being examined as a witness without being compelled so to do.

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of

this

day

A. D. 189

A. B.

ORDER TO BRING UP ACCUSED BEFORE EXPIRATION OF REMAND.

Canada,

Province of

County (or District, etc.) of

To the keeper of the common gaol of the (County) of

at

day of

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Whereas A. B. (hereinafter called the "accused") was on the committed by (me) to your custody in the said (common gaol), charged for that (etc., as in the warrant. remanding the prisoner), and, by the warrant in that behalf, you were commanded to have him at

now (next) at

on the o'clock in the fore

day of noon, before such justice or justices of the peace for the said (county) as might then be there, to answer further to the said charge, and to be further dealt with, according to law; (or, shortly, from the asterisk.*"he was remanded to the day of

next"), unless you should be otherwise ordered

in the meantime ; And whereas it appears to me, the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said (county) of (or, one of the said justices") to be expedient that the said accused should be further examined before the expiration of the said remand;

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These are therefore to order you in Her Majesty's name to bring and have the said accused at o'clock in the (fore) noon of the same day before (me) or before such other justice or justices of the peace for the said county as shall then be there, to answer further to the said charge, and to

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