Table V.
4.—Abstract of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during a period of ten years 1913-1922.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND the Number of Male and Female PRISONERS UNDER each Head.
Year Total number of cases. Convicted and punished. Discharged. Committed for trial at Supreme Court. Ordered to prison or find security pending order of His Excellency the Governor. To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge. Absconded, Did not appear and Escaped before being brought for trial at the Magistracy. Escaped. Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony. Undecided, Total number of defendants. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. 1913, 14,218 19,856 641 2,559 181 169 24 25 8 415 97 1914, 11,192 12,890 267 2,401 111 149 10 1915. 12,263 12,788 305 2,056 1916, 15,057 14,881 455 2,233 96 116 1917, 11,922 11,727 441 2,168 92 119 1918, 9,805 9,359 373 1,947 127 117 10 108 146 1919, 12,961 13,788 364 1,662 1920, 15,267 15,520 $17 2,247 151 85 20 1921, 17,374 18,726 695 2,018 1922, 18,585 13,328 614 Total 138,594 147,873 4,672 20,832 1,176 1,351 68 77 82,879 315 Average per Year. 13,859.4 14,787.3 467.2 2,083.2 117.6 135.1 6.8 7.7Page 10