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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Enclosure in No. 36.
ABSTRACT of Causes under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office, and the Court of Petty Session, during the year 1853.
COURT OF PETTY SESSION.
Number of Causes Civil Causes, how disposed of Criminal Causes, how disposed of Total M 876 404 | 472 252 | 63 | 81 8 F M 788 12 | 390 321 | 3 F 3 25 2 114 | 1Number of Causes.
M F Civil Causes 14Civil Causes consisted of Claims for Debt or Damages not exceeding $50; for Police Dues; and by Seamen for Wages, &c.
Among the Criminal Causes were for—
Larceny 283 Burglary 7 Robbery 13 Piracy 21 Receiving Stolen Property 13 Demanding Money with Menaces 6 Relating to Coin Unlawful possession of Property (under Police Ordinance) 117 Malicious damage to Property 58 Assaults 320 Vagrancy 180 False Balances and Weights Keeping Public Gambling Houses, &c. 10 Breaches of Regulation for Sale of Spirituous Liquors 2 Unlicensed Retailing of Opium 17 Perjury and Malicious Prosecution Desertion and Refusal of Duty by Seamen 14 Total Of which were Civil Criminal In British Vessels In Foreign VesselsCivil Causes how disposed of.
CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE.
Criminal Causes, how Disposed Of 1,171 M 1,784 | 102 | 779 F 509 | 32 | 85 4 M 236 F 6 | 45 F 50The 16 Civil Causes were for the most part Claims for Police Dues.
TOTAL WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES.
Warrants Summonses Subpenas Distress Arrest Search Total 937 267 81 39 1,326Under the head of "Causes how disposed of," are included all such causes as were brought before the Court for decision or investigation. Those which did not proceed beyond the issue of a summons or warrant, will be found under the head of "Total Writs issued.”
(Signed)
C. B. HILLIER,
Chief Magistrate.