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REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 17.
ABSTRACT of CAUSES under Cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office
COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS.
Total, Civil. Criminal. Number of Causes. Of which were Decree for Plaintiff. Decree for Defendant. Nonsuited. Referred to Supreme Undecided. Court. Total Number of Defendants. Civil Causes how disposed of Criminal Causes how disposed of Convicted, and punished. Punishment. Discharged without MFM | F. MF. Released on Security. Deported. Committed or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court Total. Civil Criminal. Number of Causes. Of which were MIF. M. F. M. F. 588 350 238 199 $5 87 5 4 371 5 185 77 3 3 103 2 3 1,338 91 1,242Civil Causes :-Consisted of claims for debt or damages not exceeding $50., for police rates, and by seamen for wages, &c.
Among the Criminal Causes summarily decided were for ----
Larceny, receiving stolen goods, &c.
Demanding property with menaces
Relating to coin
Malicious damage to property
Assaults
Vagrancy
Combination among workmen
158 $ 4 1 251 89 1 British American Spanish Dutch Danish French Hamburgh Prussian Mexican Portuguese Swedish Bremen Belgian Peruvian Bally Russian Hawaian Chilian Siamese Sardinian Norwegian Hanoverian Burmcac Chinese Breach of prisonEnclosure 18.
RETURN of VESSELS, TONNAGE, and FLAG anchored at
1842. 1843. 1844. 1845. FLAG. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. British 336 124,357 439 163,206 463 168,187 513 173,540 American 22 6,759 34 11,073 47 13,681 103 35,789 Spanish 11 2,718 10 2,454 12 3,007 19 4,946 Dutch 6 782 5 1,364 Danish 1,357 352 664 8 2,325 1,308 French 1,245 638 321 86 1,118 Steamers from India Do do. Canton River Totals 266 379 125 250 1,032 1,612 IGO # 2,384 480 300 100 900 - 3,550 381 136,336 497 180,572 538 189,257 672 226,998Victoria Hong Kong, 30th January 1852.
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