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REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT

Enclosure 12 in No. 39.

ABSTRACT of CAUSES under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office Hong Kong, during the Year 1850, with the mode of disposal.

Number of Causes. Civil Causes, how disposed of Criminal Causes, how disposed of. Total. Civil. Criminal. Decree for Plaintiff Decree for Defendant or Claim withdrawn. Summoned to Petty Sessions. Undecided. Total Convicted Discharged or Released without Punishment Deported. Committed or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court Committed pending delivery by the Governor. Undecided. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1,731 556 64 126 359 7 1,692 66 46 19 674 29 50 6 47 380 10 10 49 17 1 1,731

Resisting Police

The Civil Causes summarily decided by the Magistrates consisted of—

• Claims for Police Rates
• Recovery of deserted leasehold premises
• Fees on Opium Licenses, &c.
• Debt, Damage, &c.

132 197 827 Total. 1,731

The Criminal Causes summarily decided consisted of-

• Unlawful possession of goods, malicious injuries, obstruction of wharves and thoroughfares, keeping public brothels, illegal assemblage with intent to injure property, furious driving, &c. &c.
• Rogues and Vagabonds, plying boats and hawking without License.
• Misconduct as Police Constables
• Drunkenness and disorderly conduct
• Assaults and Batteries
• Keeping Public Gambling Houses
• Unlawful combination among workmen
• False Balances and Weights
• Breaches of Spirit Licenses
• Exercising without License the calling of Pawnbroker, Auctioneer, Retailer of Opium or Spirits

164 86 40 23 214 157 2 13 707

(True Copy,)

(Signed)

C. B. HILLIER,

Chief Magistrate.

W. CAINE,

Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure 13 in No. 39.

ABSTRACT of Causes under Cognizance at the Court of Petty Sessions, Hong Kong, during the Year 1850, with the Mode of Disposal.

No. of Causes. Civil Causes, how disposed of Criminal Causes, how disposed of. Total. Civil. Criminal. Decree for Plaintiff. Decree for Defendant. Non-suited. Withdrawn. Referred to Supreme Court. Undecided. Total Number of Defendants. Convicted and Punished. Discharged without Punishment. Released on Security. Committed or Bailed. Deported. Undecided. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 575 359 216 208 41 71 2 34 4 315 182 2 61 1 30 33 6 575

CRIMINAL

Classification of Offences.

• Larceny
• Robbery and Housebreaking
• Embezzlement
• Extortion
• Receiving Stolen Property
• Obtaining Money by false pretences
• Demanding Money with menaces
• Uttering counterfeit Coin
• Riotous assemblage
• Combination amongst Workmen
• Assaults with intent to Rob
• Assaults and Batteries
• Vagrancy
• Returning to the Colony after having been deported
• Cutting and destroying Trees
• Desertion from Vessels in Harbour

146 4 22 Total 216

(True Copy.)

(Signed)

C. B. HILLIER,

Chief Magistrate.

W. CAINE,

Colonial Secretary.

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