as
returns here laid before yours Excellency - they may be taken for what they
are
worth but revenue and
theonly
· population are the only texts beywhich Johould be inclined to by the advance pre falling off of our condition.
Prime. The criminal returns of the Supreme
vert show that 183 persons have been triedfinder 85
charges and of these 100 have been ponieschede 4barquitted the prosecution was
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103
abandoned against 36 and
1stood over for hisk in 1857. Pracy and prses connected with piracy account for beas than 340 of these pass
and st 5 of these convictions .
st5of. and pirary must necessarily have been committed out
of the Colonial jurisdiction. Considering the amount of our population the remainders four Calendar speaks in favor of the emall amount of crime. cerenkoferrime
existing in 1856 but there
must be a much more
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