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ABSTRACT OF CASES brought under CoaxIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of
Ten Years, from 1st January, 1889, to 31st December, 1898, inclusive.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH Head.
YEARS.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES.
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
Committed
Supreme
Court.
Commit- to Prison or
ted for Trial at
detained pending Or- ders of His Excellency
the Governor.
To keep the Peace, to be of Good Beha- viour, and to
Ordered to And Security
Did not
appear and abs- conded.
Escaped before being brought
Punished for
Preferring
Total
False Charge Undecided.
Number
for trial at
or giving
of
the Ma-
False
Defendants.
answer muy
Charge.
gistracy
Testimony.
1
2
4
5
6
7
8 9
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
10
11
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M. F.
M.
F.
F. M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
1889.
8,070
6,626
268
2,019
178 157
44 10
10
303
$4
:
1890,
9,739
7,423
317 2,406
151102
135
259 50
1891,
1892,
13,676
13,438 534
1,906
134
40
12
158 19
:
11,920 11,771 827 1,927 151 40
111010
4
5
191 20
1893,..
10,727
10.049 300 1,532
75
102
GI
7
1
242
÷
35
:
:
:
2
17
64
8
9,580
503
3
35
10,243
529
1
146
15,098 689
7
28
18,060 502
17
23
11,972 420
!
Total,.
51,732 49.3071,752 10,090
689 441 16
83
111,148 1068
:
45
293
7
61.407 2,648
Average per
Year,
10,946 4
9,861 4 350.4 2,018.0137.8 88.2 3.2 166 2.2220,6 83.6
1
9.0
58.6 1.4
12.281.4 528.6
1894,
10.447 9,465 802 1,716
95
2
5
255 28
1895,
17,016, 15,058
725
2,345
196
-
51
B
282
1896,
17,767 16,659
797
1,371
203
62 21
1
1
282
223
77
:
72
1897,
11,185
1898,
13,341
548 10,237
12,668 834
1,481
151
1,196
2
93
$2
73: 12
1
183 83
65 $
209 48
10
16
12
199 :
423 11,580
17,897 1,001
28
5
115
25
4
70
12,079 807
23
8
142
14,304
985
18,468 1,100
Toral,...... 69,756
04,082 8,200
8,109 738314 41
9
1
1,111 303
I
100
18
551
9
74,278 4,816
Average per
Year,
13,951.2 12,816.4 641.21,621.8
147.6 62.5 82
1.8 0.2222.2 60.6|0,2 10.2
20.0
8.6 110.2
1.8
14,855.6 863.2
Grand Total
for the 10 Years,.....
124,488 113,3894,958 18,1991,427755 | 57
2
122,259 471
I
145
18
811
16
135,685 6,959
Average per
Year,
1
12,448.8 11,338.9495.8 1,819.9142.7 75.5 5.7
9.2 1.2 225.9 47.1 0.1
0.1
14.5
1.8
84.4 1.6
13,568.5695.9
Magistracy, Hongkong, 14th January, 1899.
W. C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate.
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