14
379
151
numbers have been
sot period and period
Number of cases.
71176
709
Mumber of prisoners.
252
1175
Number convicted
1964
1038
3.
raced
No distinction of ra
has been attempted in any of these
statements as it would have taken
too long a time to prepare them but the prison returns which I
had the honour to forward on 20th
ultimo
9.
give
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the numbers of prisoners N. 1464
of each race admitted in each
each year.
It must be
remembered that during the last
quinquennial.
quinquennial period the Police.
Magistrates have been in the practice of committing for trial before the Supreme Court many cases
that they formerly would have __ dealt with themselves, and this circumstance would partly account for the increased numbers of cases disposed of by the Supreme Court, and · for the smaller number disposed of by the obbagistrates. But making __
every
allowance for this circumstance and also for the increase in the
population
the returns now
forwarded