And Whereas I am satisfied by information in writing and under oath that C.D., of ................, hereinafter called the witness, is bound by recognizance to give evidence on the trial of the accused on the said charge, and that the witness (has absconded or is about to abscond);
You are hereby commanded, in her Majesty’s name, to arrest the offender if it is necessary to do so in order to take the offender into custody, and to take and convey him safely to a federal penitentiary (or provincial correctional institution for the province of ........, as the case may be) and deliver him to the keeper thereof, who is hereby commanded to receive the accused into custody and to imprison him there for the term(s) of his sentence, unless, where a term of imprisonment was imposed only in default of payment of a fine or costs, the said amounts and the costs and charges of the committal and of conveying the offender to the said prison are sooner paid, and this is a sufficient warrant for so doing.
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