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.
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F.
M.
F.
M.
F. M. F.
M. F.
M. F.
M
F.
M.\ F.
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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
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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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