PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:
IUUC.O.
REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH~NOT TO
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON}
133/26 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
-340
to swell the total of long- sentenced prisoners. Repeated convictions and the heavy sentences imposed by Sir Edmund Hornby and the apistant Iudge have considerably checked if not entirely eradicated the so ontrages- Care has been laten on their release to remove these men as far as possible from China, and I am led to believe that they have "cither abandoned their previous modes of life, or have not found their way again to the old scene of their depredations; at all
events I am not Cognizant of more than one case of reconviction. The New Consular Gaol in Shanghai will. I apprehend be open this year for the reception of all prisoners sentenced at Treaty Ports, which will considerably lessen the mumber of prisoners in this Colony.
Crimes, ter
I have of late
5.
years
noticed a remarkable diminution in the I number of Crimes and serious offences which I believe is traceable to the deterrent effect on the Chinese Criminal classes of the system of prison parrishments,- (Publie whisching and ultimate deportation) Established under the present Government, and to the beneficial operation of certain Ordinances, more especially "The Hearbor and Coast's Ordinance" (N°6 of 1866) "The Ordinance for the suppression
Solitary of Pirney" (No 1 of 1868), and that for whipping" Anfinsment in certain cases
(Ne 3 of 1868).
and
The total annual numbers of prisoners committed to Garl for every species of offence from the 10! January 1864 to the 314 Decembu 1869, were.
1864
1865 1866.
1867
1868
1869
3822
6246
6660
3896.
4546.3659
Americans that
of
· 197
year
than in 1867, whilst I find that the total number
Serious offences with 1458 in 1867.
in 1868 was 1256 as compared-
The total annual numbers of prisoners convided as the Supreme Court, Hongkong from 1888 to 1869 inclusive, were
1863
1865
1864.
1865 1866 1867
186.8 -
1869
200. 178.
145.
$..
$1.
76.
Showing & Steady decrcase for the last four
The following table shews the number
of
years.
-
Prisoners excented
from 14th of January 1889 15 3101 December.
-1869
year
[(Crime)
(Crime')
Total numbe
Mourder Piracy telbauda!
Executed
1862
&
14
1863
2
7
9
1864
暴
1865
12
13
13
14
1867
4
S
1868
1869
Folab
IS.
45.
ba.
1866-
Is Meurder
Committed
out of the Colony
Note
The slight increase in 1868 is ascribable to Minor Offences". Under the heading of Drunkenness for instance, there were charges brought against Europeans and upwards of
tes more
b.
Note! Deportation.
existence for
sone
years.
Chinese Prisoners.
The System of Deportation though in
was rarely enforced before the arrival of -