. . . .. .. .
2.
)
109
three
years ago
as
to the excessive
use
of the lash
the lash in this Colony
and the increase of crime that
seemed to be partly due to the practice of branding Chinese
criminals and some other cruel and
occasionally illegal punishments of
the natives.
2.
Those returns include the criminal statistics of Hong Kong for
the
year
1879, prepared in the usual
course by the Registrar of the Perpreme Court, the Head of the ~ Police, the Police Magistrates, and the Superintendent of the baol. They also contain comparative
Gov
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tables of the number of criminale
for some years past. The Police
Magistrates give
an
abstract of cases
and convictions from 1870 to 1879
inclusive, and the Superintendent of
the number of
the Gaol
gives admissions to prison from 1862 to
1879 inclusive. In continuation of the Return of the Acting - Superintendent of the Gaol, of the! number of floggings from 1867 to 1876, which was laid before Lord Carnarvon in
my despatch 10103
of the 30th of August 1844, Superintendent now gives
gives the
the-
number of floggings up to the