205
we have at once a
article amounting
retail export, trade in one
to a Million and
hundred thousand dollars annually.
10.
the
height
fixed. Revenue derivable under Crown Land. of the year 186? was as
this head at the close of the
follows
Mercantile Firms £4496 8 15 7 2.10% 1⁄2 Private Individuals. Chinese. 1, b 4 b« 5′′ 31⁄2 Total £11,249. 3. 4% -being £144, 5.5% above the amount for 1848,
£144,5.5% notwithstanding
a loss to Government to
the value of £4.2307/09 caused by a reduction in the rental of three and the surrender
and resumption of twelve other: during the
past year.
At the
commencement of the past
Police.
year a considerable reduction was made in
the Police Force, as already reported to your Lordship,
12.
and I am glad to say.
that I believe it to be
sufficiently strong to answer all legitimate
purposes.
I enclose herewith three Returns, one
- showing the number of Persons apprehended
in 1848 and 1849 respectively, and the others
s.1 ._ the Criminal cases tried in the Supreme and Admiralty Courts during the last year respectively.
N. 14.
M:15.
From the two latter
that out
Your
arions committed
of 143 persons
Lordship will remark
trial
half of the
during 1849, Seventy-
me 11. ou
accused
were
in 1848 out
for
tried and convicted, whereas
223 Persons Committed;
of 225
60 or less than one
only
third of the accused
I also annex an
were convicted..
Abstract of the
number
of
by
the
Civil cases disposed of
19.16. Chief Justice during 1849, as well as Returns
_
showing the Amounts and description of
business that has been
performed by
the
Court of Petty Sessions and in the Chief