Total.

Civil

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NUMBER OF

CAUSES.

CIVIL CAUSES HOW

DISPOSED OF.

Of which

Were

ABSTRACT of CAUSES under COGNIZANCE at the Police Magistrates' Court and Court of Petty Sessions during the Year 1802.

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS.

POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Criminal.

Decree for Plaintiff.

Decree for Defendant.

Nonsuited.

Referred to Supreme Court.

Undecided.

Total Number of Defendants.

Discharged.

Deported.

Committed for trial at the Supreme Court.

Ordered to find security to be of good be-

haviour, or to answer any charge.

Punished

for preferring false charge, or

giving false testimony.

Total.

Civil.

Criminal,

Decree for Defendant. Undecided.

Decree for Plaintiff,

CRIMINAL CAUSES HOW DISPOSED OF.

NUMBER OF

CAUSES.

Of which

were

CIVIL CAUSES,

HOW

DISPOSED OF.

Convicted and Punished.

89

878) 575) 298) 1441)

40

8

M. F. Jr. P.

2) 663

M. | F. | M,

F. M.

F. M. F.

M.F.

33 310

1 103

28

23-1

1

Total Number of Defendants.

Convicted and Punished.

Discharged.

Civil Causes consisted of Claims for Debt or Damages not exceeding $50, for Police and Lighting Rates, for the monthly fee due on Licenses for retail of Spirits by Chinese, and for monthly payments, &c., from Registered Brothels, under Ordinance 12 of 1857, all which casts caused to be adjudicated at the Police Court upon the passing of Ordinance 6 of 1862.

CRIMINAL CAUSES HOW DISPOSED OF.

Deported.

Committed for trial at Court of Petty

Sessions.

Committed for trial at Supreme Court.

Committed to prison pending orders of the

Governor.

To keep the peace.

To be of good behaviour, or to

answer any charge.

Ordered to find

security.

Punished for preferring false charge, or

giving false testimony.

JL

F.

M.

F.

M.

F. M. F.

M. F.

M. F.

M

F.

M.\ F.

...

***

5,843;

43 5,800)

37.

1|11,982) 960|| 8,637| 688| 2,353| 222 173

4 303 12 252 9 142 12

M. F.

91 2 109 5 23

JL.

F

M.

F.

401

2

Among the Criminal Causes were,-

Illegal pawning,

2

Abduction of females,

13

Intimidation of Workmen,

2

Summons

for

Aiding Soldiers and Seamen to desert,

4

Keeping public gambling honses, or frequenting or haunting them,

82

Assaults....

987

Larcenics,

805

ww.

Being at large in the Streets at night without night pass,...

345

Malicious prosecution and false testimony,

20

Breaches of Ordinance for regulation of Brothels,

56

Misconduct as Police Constables,

79

Breaches of Cargo Boat Ordinance,

10

Murder, Piracy, &c.

30

4,111

Breaches of Post Office Ordinance,

2

Offences relating to Coins,

28

Breaches of Markets' Ordinance,

48

Personating Bail,

3

Breaches of Registration Ordinance,

Breach of Prison,

Bribery,

51

Rape.

3

6

Receiving stolen property,

9

11

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Retailing Spirits without license, and breaches of Spirit License Recognizance,

30

Burglary, Robbery, &c.,

75

Kiotous assemblage,

1

...

Child Stealing,

8

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Trespass on Crown Lands, and infractions of Building Regulations,...

43

Conspiracy to defraud,

5

Unnatural offences,

2

Demanding property with menaces, &c.,

37

Unlawful possession of property, and other breaches of Police Ordinance 14 of 1845, 3,008

Desertion and refusal of duty by Seamen of British and Foreign Vessels,

34

Unlicensed hawking,

283

Forgery,

Detention of Seamen's Effects,

Exercising the calling of Pawnbroker without license, in contravention of

Ordinance No. 3 of 1860,

Having false balances and weights for sale of Warês, ...

1

Unlicensed retailing of Opium,

19

...

Vagraney, Rogues and Vagabonds, and Suspicious Characters,...

190

...

122

Without permission conveying things to prisoners at work on the roads in contra- vention of Ordinance 1 of 1853.

30

TOTAL WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES.

Undecided.

THE HONGKONG governmENT GAZETTE, 21ST FEBRUARY, 1863.

Summons and Notices of

Subpoenas Judgment and

WARRANTS.

Search.

Defendants. to Witnesses. Rehearing. Distress. Arrest.

378

99

363

89

187

TOTAL,

.5,222.

Under the head of Causes how disposed of are included all such Causes as were brought before the Courts for decision or investigation. Those which did not proceed beyond the issue of a Summons or Warrant will be found under the head of Total Writs issued.

C. MAY,

1st Police Magistrate,

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