RETORN of the NUMBER of Cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice, and ACTIONS commenced in the Supreme and Fice Admiralty Courts of ¡longkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1870.
Cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice in 1870.
COURT.
CASES. NUMBER
AMOUNT OF DEnt
AND
DAMAGES CLAIMED
DEFEND JUDGMENT.
TOTAL
PLAINTIFY
NONSUT. CASES!
DEBT AND DAMAGES.
ANT
SUPREME COURT.--
Common Law”,
Chancery,.
Appeals, ......................
Bankruptcy,...
VICE ADMIRALTY COURT,......
2
...
© 98,876 26
Petitioners
*****
***
...
Actions commenced in 1870.
1
10
£98,875.26
REMAIN
NEM-
COURT.
CASES HER OF
CLAIMED. DAMAGES DEBT AND AMOUNT OF
WITHOUT SETTLED
JUDGMENT.
TOTAL.
ING IN
DEPEND
TRIAL
PLAINTIFF
ANT. DEFEND
NosSUIT.
ENCE,
Cases DEUT AND DAMAGES,
SUPREME COURT, —
Common Law,...
d 84
$471,802.89
55
Chancery,
......
Bankruptcy.
“ !$
Probate, .............
51
762.722.03 242,554.70 |
=*
3
Petitioners
ischarged
91
ATA
29
TOTAL
Abstract of Causes under COGNIZAxor of the Polace Manistrates' Cowwe, during the Year 1870.
CaqSES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Discharged.
Committed for
Supreme Court.
Trial ME
Committed to Pri-
son, or detained
pending onters
of the Governor.
To keep
the Peace.
Ordered to find Security.
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ferring false
false Testimony.
Undecided.
Total Namber
of Defendants.
Summonses for
Defendants.
WRITS ISSCED BY THE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1879,
minonses for
Witnesses.
Notices of Jug-i
ment and Rebearing.
Distress.
Warrants.
Arrest.
Search.
For entering
Gambling
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VICH ADMIRALTY COURT,...
Appeals, ................................. -
...
22,159.28
......
b. Two of these Cases were in depeulence on 31st December, 1869.
a. One of these Cases was in dependence on 31st December, 1869.
162
...
d. One of these Cases was partly tried, and referred to Arbitration.
e. The Amount here given is the Amount of liabilities set forth in the Bankrupts' Schedules.
e. The Amonut given in these Cases is the Amount of liabilities set forth in the Bankrupt's Schedules.
$1,499,238.00
granted during the Year. f. The Amount given in these Cases is the sworn value of the several Estates in which Probate or Letters of Administration werd
Registrar. W. II. ALEXANDER,
RETURN of the NUMBER of CASES tried and ACTIONS commenced in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction from the 1st January to 31st December, 1870.
AMOUNT OF
CASES. No. of
DEBT AND
DAMAGES
TRIAL. WITHOUT SETTLED
REMAIN-
JUDGMENT.
ING IN
CLAIMED.
Plaintiff. Defendant. Nonsuit.No Servire.
EXCR. DEPEND-
* 1,797
$93,047.281
1,015
570
24
107
0
Hongkong, 21st January, 1871. COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
REMARKS.
38
43
1809. on 31st December were in dependenc
28 of these Cases
Clerk of Court. HENRY J. HOLMES,
Convicted and
Punished.
Total Number
of
Causes.
not
320
Abduction,
Accessory before the Fact to Felony,
Accessory after the Fact to Felony.
Allowing Ferocious Dogs to be at large,
Administering Drugs,........
Assaults, Common,
Assaults accompanied with Dainage of Propertyy.
Assaulting or Resisting Police in Execution of Duty,
M.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M. P.
AL.
F.
},
F.
37.
F. M. F.
M.
5,936 6,702
609 2,065
281
127
1
12
24
首
21
201 21
40
6
70
14
$,352
919
2,539
194
63
18
187
67
}
3,019
+ L
:
Total, Males and Fernales,...
THE CASES CONSISTED OF
Brought forward......
Chinese Offenders found in Colony after Deportation, or in Breach of Condi- tional Pardon,
9,271
2,025
Brought forward........
8,322
Compounding Felony....
Confederating with Pirates,
Conspiracy,
38
Contempts of Court,
Assaults at or in connection with Riotous Assemblages, Assaults with Intent to rob,
7
Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,
Cruelty to Animals....
107
Cutting and Destroving Trees,
Arstil,
Cutting and Wounding, and billicting bodily Injuries,
P
Assuming Designation of Police Coustable.
1
Damage of Property, ........
Attempts to Cominit Felonies....
12
Dead Bodies, Burying Chinese elsewhere than in a Cemetery,
Attempts to Commit other Offences,
#
Defiling Streams,
Attempts to Extort by Threats,...
Desertion from Her Majesty's Ariny,
At large in the Night without Passes,
439
Detention of Seamen's Effects,
Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peach,
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Discharging Fire Arma,
+1
Breaches of Ordinance:
For Regulation of Public Vehicles....
188
Discharging Stones, &c., to danger or damage of Persous or Property, Disorderly Behaviour.
956
For Registration of Houses and Mervants,
DI
Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with damage of Property,
01
Offences relating to Coin,
For Suppression of Publie Gambling,
13
Discating an Officer in breach of Merchant Shipping Act,
Perjury,
For Markets.
99
For Preparation and Sale of prepared Opinus
For Post Ofler,
For Pawnbrokers,
For Distillation of Spirits,
For Buildings,
For Jail.
For Retail of Spiritavus Liquors,
Før Gmipowder Storage,
For Harbor and Coasts,
For Cargo Boats,
For Regalation of Weights and Measures,..
For Regulating Printing Presses,
For Police and Lighting Gates,
For Maintenance of Osler and Cleanliness,
For Marine Store Dealers, ...
For Preservation of Birds,
Breach of Harbor Regulations, Breach of the Stamp Act, Breach of Prisoli, ...
Birch of frequzances, fireach of Trust,
Bribery and Attempts to Burglaries,...
bribe Police Constables,.
Cattle. Turned loose un Pablie Ways,
Child-stealing,
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Chinese not holders of Night Paus found carrying Arms,,
Curried firwordy...
I Harboring Police when on Duty,
Highway Robbery....
House Breaking,
Illegal Pawning.
Inciting to Crime,
1 Judocent Assaults...
Indecent Exposure of Person,
Indecent Placards, posting und Publishing,
Infectious Disease, Exposing a case of small. Pox on a Public Way,
7
Intimidating Witnesses,
4
Intimidating Workmen,
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Carried forward....
Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance, Embezzlement,
12
Piracy,
...
Escape, alding Prisoner to,
Piney with Murder,
Escapes of Prisoners from Custody of Police,
Exercising the calling of a Money Changer without a License,
1
Rreviving stolen i'roperty,
Exposing hildren and endangering Life thereby,
Exposing obserne Pictures for Sale....
2
Extortion, or attempt to extort by Color of Office,
Falso Imprisonment,
...
Firing Crackers in the Street (vide head Making Bonfire),
Forcible detention of Persons with intent to ransom, &c., Furgery,
21
1
Found by night in Dwelling Ronses, or with Arins, or House breaking im- plements with intent to commit Felony,
Roques nd Vagabonds,
16
Furious Driving.
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Street Gambling,
Harboring deported Prisoners,
Kidnapping with intent to send Abread, lacortes,
14
Latteries from Person,
1
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Libri,
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Making Bonfires, and firing Crackers,
Manslaughter,
Mendierney.
Misconduct as Domestic Servants,
Miscominct as Police Constables,
Miscontuet as Watelmen.
Alisconduct as Workten....
Misprision of Felony, ...
Murder,
Negligently allowing prisoner to escape,
Nuisances, ...
Obtaining Money and other Property by False Pretences,
Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkers, Chair Coolies, and
and Wharves by Boat People,
6 Perjury, Subordination of,
Prefering false Charge or giving wilful false Testimony,
Refusal of Duty by Merelient Seameal, ...
Refusing to assist l'olice,
414
Restuing Prisne s from Custody of l'olice,
Returning from Transportation before Expiration of Tern,
Biotous Assemblages,
From the Person 14, in Harbor 3,
Kobberies, --- 7 In Dwelling House 3.
Shouting with Intent to do grievous bodily Harm,
Trespass on Crown Lands,
Enlawful Possession of Property,
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j-keepers,
Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,
Unlicensed Hawking,
Unlicensed Plying of Boats,
Unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,
12
Unlicensed Stone Quarrying,
J Unnatural Offence,
20
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468
49
117
212
B
128
Lawholesome Provisions, exposing for Sale, and bringing into Colony,
TOTAL
....5,946
2
8,922
C. MAY,
First Police Magistrate.