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ORences as
to pledges
for above

$4.80.

Holder of
pawn- ticket
entitled to
Tedecmt

Production
of pawn-
ticket on
redemption,

Liability of
pawnbroker
mM case of
fire.

Ch. 31. No. 12.] Pawnbroker.

19. If, with respect to pledges for loans of above $4.80,
a pawnbroker.—

(a) does not bond fide according to the directions of
this Ordinance sella pledge pawned with him,

(b) enters in his book a pledge as sold for less than the
sum for which it was sold, or fails duly to enter the
same,

(c) refuses to permit any person entitled under this
Ordinance to inspection of an entry of sale in’ the
pawnbroker’ book, or of a filled up catalogue of the
auction authenticated by the auctionecer’s signature, to
Inspect the came,

(d) fails without lawful excuse (proof whereof shall
lie on him) to produce such a catalogue on lawful
demand,

(c) refuses to pay on demand the surplus to the
person entitled to receive the same,

he shall, in every such case, be guilty of an offence, and shall
be hable, on summary conviction, to forfeit to the person
agerieved a sum not exceeding forty-eight dollars.

Delivery up of pledge.

20. The holder for the time being of a pawn-ticket shall
he presumed to be the person entitled to redeem the p'edge,
and, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the pawn-
broker shall accordingly (on payment of the loan and profit)
deliver the pledge to the person producing the pawn-ticket,
and he is hereby indemnified for so doing.

21. A pawnbroker shall not (exeept as in this Ordinance
provided) be bound to deliver back a pledge unless the
pawn-ticket for tt is delivered to him.

22. (1) Where a pledge is destroved or damaged by or in
consequence of fire, whether such destruction or damage
occur upon the premises of the pawnbroker or of an auctioneer
to which such pledge has been removed for the purpose of
being sold, the pawnbroker shall nevertheless be liable,
on application within the period during which the pledge
would have been redeemable, to pay the value of the pledge,