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# Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941
## REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
### Enclosure 11 in No. 15.
Comparative RETURN of the Total Number of Persons apprehended in the Years 1848 and 1849.
Year. Total Apprehended. Discharged by Proclamation, or Charge being abandoned. Summarily Convicted. Committed for Trial. Tried and Convicted. Tried and Acquitted. Remaining Un-tried. 1848 1,456 401 199 167 41 69 57 1849 2,030 686 1,183 161* 13 49 39 Increase in 1849. 574 285 984 195 32 Decrease in 1849. 6 20 24 28 18* Of the 161 persons committed for trial during 1849, 18 were disposed of during the February Sessions, 1850.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
9th March, 1850.
(Signed)
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police.
(True copy)
### Enclosure 12 in No. 15.
RETURN of Criminal Cases that have been Tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, from the 15th of February to the 15th of December 1849, inclusive.
Crime. No. of Cases. No. of Persons. Charge Abandoned. Charge Postponed. Convicted. Acquitted. Sentence: Death. Sentence: Death Recorded. Sentence: Transportation. Sentence: Hard Labour over one Year. Sentence: Hard Labour, one Year and under. Assault with intent to rob. 1 1 1 1 Assault, being armed, with intent to rob. 2 2 1 1 Attempting to commit a felony. 1 3 3 1 2 Breaking and stealing in a shop. 3 4 4 1 2 1 Burglary and larceny 13 12 7 5 Burglary and stabbing 1 1 1 Child-stealing 1 1 1 False imprisonment 1 1 1 Larceny 12 18 4 14 Manslaughter. 4 4 3 1 Receiving stolen goods 3 3 3 Robbery 3 3 1 2 Robbery with violence 10 10 2 7 1 Robbery with arms 1 1 1 Stealing from the person 4 4 1 3 Stealing in a dwelling-house 2 2 1 1 Uttering a forged order 2 2 2 **Total.** **43** **37** **32** **2** **3** **5** **18** **12**N.B.-No cases were postponed from the December Sessions 1849.
(True copy.)
(Signed) ROB. Dundas Cay, Registrar.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.