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than 7s. 8d. a week' may be obtained at any police court.
They are as follows:—
1. In case of a weekly tenancy, seven days' written notice to quit (the
notice above adverted to) ' should be served on the person in
occupation; such notice to expire on the same day of the week as
tenancy commenced. A copy of this notice must be kept.
2. If the tenant neglects to leave according to the notice, on any day
after that on which the notice to quit expired, serve another notice
(in statutory form) giving notice that you will apply at this Court
for a warrant to eject him at ten o'clock in the forenoon of a day (to
be named in the notice), which must be eight days at least after
that on which the notice is served : keep a copy of this notice also.
3. On the day named in the second notice, come to the Court at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, and bring with you the copies of the notices,
and also a written complaint, stating that you are the owner of or
agent for the premises, their situation, the rent payable, the date on
which the tenancy expired, the date of the service of the second
notice, and how it was served.
"In a footnote the applicant is informed that ' this second
notice (referred to in 2) ' must be read over and explained
to the person upon whom it is served,' and that ' printed forms
of notice and complaint may be obtained at law stationers and
elsewhere.' Meanwhile, the unfortunate landlord, who may be
innocent of wrong-doing, must not take any rent upon pain of
vitiating the whole of the proceedings. If everything has been
done in due order, the magistrate will issue a warrant to the
police, ' commanding them within a period to be therein named,
not less than 21 nor more than 30 clear days from the date of such
warrant, to enter (by force if needful) into the premises and give
possession of the same to the landlord or agent'; the usua
course being to turn the people with their goods and chattels into
the street, where they (the goods) create an ' obstruction with
which in some cases the Sanitary Inspectors have been called
upon to deal. In many a case, however, there are no goods and
chattels : they have gone to the pawnbroker long before, or have
been seized, under a distraint.