# CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES,
Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, Offences against property other than malicious injuries to property or predial larceny. Offences against Revenue Acts. Highway Acts, Health Acts. and other Acts, relating to the social economy of the Colony,
Offences against Opium Ordinances Nos. 30 of 1923, and 7 of 1924
Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts, relating to indentured coolies.....
Other offences.
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## Table III,
ABSTRACT of CASES under Cognizance of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during the Year 1929.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES. TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS. Convicted and Punished. Discharged. Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. Ordered to find Security. WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Warrants. 501 617 263 25 129 14 18 23 19 5,111 1,757 1,604 2,654 2,855 2,025 67 22 122 621 29 70 2,653 2,887 2,274 157 433 23 760 839 643 89 101 12 To keep the Peace. 9 125 17 To be of Good Behaviour. To answer any Charge. Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony. Undecided. 19 3 Total Number of Prisoners. 24,428 25,387 20,480 963 3,461 137 51 6 97 18 146 16 6 Total. 31,558 34,368 27,308 1323 4,872 203 135 146 27 290 23 25 TOTAL. 574 44 13,739 102 298 80 874 422 50 15,566 22 1,730 27 1 2,757 99 FE 24 A 2,731 180 744 95 an 18 24,265 1,135 44 |32,826 1,580 13,739 102 1298 80874 +22 50 | 15,566 34,406 * TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES, * Consisting of Offendors not sentenced to Imprisonment,