TOTAL
NUMBER
TOTAL
NUMBER
OF
OF
PRISO-
CASES.
NERS.
Convicted
pue
Punished.
Discharged.
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment. .
Committed
for Trial at
the Supreme
Court.
Committed
01.
F. M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M. F.
M.
F.
M.
9,100 10,552 | 7,166 628 2,126 251
200
11
14
3 76
18
Prison, or
De ined
Stop Rupuad
of H E. t
Governor.
To keep
the
Peace.
To be
pood jo
*l[{[
viour.
T
To
answer Charge. any
Punished for false Charge
preferring
or giving
wilful false
Testimony.
ABSTRACT OF (ASES UNDER COGNIZANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT, DURING THE YEAR 1878. CASES HOW DISposed of, and THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Ordered to find Security.*
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES, DURING THE YEAR 1878.
Warrants.
Undecided.
M.
P.
BUL.
F.
10
5
19
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,......
Total
of Number Prisoners.
Summonses for
Defendants.
M. F.
9,630 922 2,603
100
000
10,552
Summonses
for Witnesses.
Notices of Re-hearing.
Árrest.
39
147
85
4
Distress.
32
Search.
For
entering Gambling] Ilouses.
Magis-
trates'
Orders.
2,932
TOTAL.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH MARCH, 1879.