1871 — Page 239

Total Number

30

Силек

6,400

ABSTRACT of CAUSES UNDER COGNIZANCE or tuk POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT, DURIxo the Year 1871.

Cases How disposed of, and the Number of Male and Female Prisoskus usper each lead,

Ordered to find Security.

WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLice Magistrates, DURIXO The Year 1871.

WARRANTS,

Convicted and

Punished.

Discharged.

Committed for

Trial at the

"Supreme Court.

Committed to Pri-

son or detained pending orders

of His Excellency

the Governor.

MI.

F.

M.

F.

3.

F.

J.

F.

6,143

6732,406

811 148

1

28

out day o1. | B

Peace and

Behaviour.

be of good

To answer

any Charge.

Panished for pre- ferring fulse

fully giving false Charge, or wil-

Testinosy.

Undecided.

of Defendants.

Total Number

Defendants.

Summonses for

Summonses for

Witnesses.

Notices of Judg-

ment and ke-

hearing.

Distress.

Arrest.

Search.

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F. M.

F.

F.

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F. M.

F.

65

5

8-19

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40

7

82

9 0,211

1,047

2,302

329

58

10

73

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.10,028

Total Males and Feinules................................................

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:-

For entering

Gambling

Houses.

TOTAL

2,840

Adininistering Drops,

Allowing unmuzzled Ferocious Dogs to be at large,

Assaults (CommOD),

444

Assaulting or Resisting Police in the Execution of their Duty,. Assaults at or in connection with Kiotous Assemblages,

Assaults accompanied with Damage of Property...

Assaults with Intent to rob.

Assuming Designation of Police Constables,

Attempts to coinmit Felonies,

**

A

At large in the Night without Passes or Lights.

Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Pence, Breach of Ordinances:-

For Buildings,

For Cargo-Boata.

For Jails....

-

---

For Chairs and Vehicles,

For Markets,...

++

For Marine Store Dealers,

For Pawnbrokers,

A

For Police and Lighting Rates,

---

For Preparation and Sale of Prepared Opium,

For Preservation of Birds,

-

410

For Registration of Houses and Servants.... For Retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors,

For Storage of Gunpowder,...

For Suppression of Gambling,

For Weights and Measures,

Breach of Harbor Regulations,

Breach of Stamp Act,

Breach of Recognizance,

**

A

Bribery and Attempts to bribe Police Constables,

Burying Chinese Corpss elsewhere than in a Cemetery, Burglary,

Cattle. Turned loase on Public Ways,

Chinese not holders of Night Passes found carrying Arms, Chinese Uffenders found in the Colony after Deportation, or in Breach of

Conditional Pardon, ...

8

:

12

Child-stealing,

629

Compounding Felony,

Brought forward,...

***

**

1,894

Brought forward,...

Manslaughter,.......

***

1

*

Mendicancy,

***

86

-

Conspiracy to defraud,

1

+1+

Misconduct as Workinen,

2

Contempt of Court,

8

HI

Misconduct as Police Constables,

13

---

Crimes and Offences cominitted in Chinese Territory, Cruelty to Animals,

15

Misconduct as Private Watchmen,

15

Misconduct as Domestic Servants,

+4

---

2

Cutting and Wounding, and inflicting bodily Injuries,

12

-

Murder,

G

ME

***

13

Cutting and Destroying Trees,

35

Negligently allowing Prisoners to escape,

...

890

Damage of Property,

24

Nuisances,

***

...

67

---

Defiling Streams,

17

***

3

Desertion from a Foreign Man-of-War,

6

Detention of Seamen's Effects,

173

...

Discharging Fire Arms,...

++

215

---

2

Desertion from H. M.'s Army and Navy,

Discharging Stones, &c., to danger or damage of Persons and Property, Disorderly Behaviour,

Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with damnge of Property,

A

2

***

1

+6

a

Obtaining Money or other Property by False Pretences,... Offences relating to Coins,

Obstraction of Public Ways by Hawkers, Chair Coolies, Shop-keepers, and

Wharves by Boat People,

-

--

1

Perjury,

8

Personating Bail,

1,084

l'iracy with Murder,

40

Preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony,

20

6

+

Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance.......... Embezzlement,

5

Receiving stolen Property,

---

5

++

Refusal of Duty by Merchant Seamen,

ad

14

Escape of Prisoners from lawful Custody,

2

A

Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of Police,

False Imprisonment,

3

Riotous Assemblages,

TE

44

20

HI

Firing Crackers and making Bonfires in the Street,

74

Robberies,

400

+

P

32

Forcible Detention of Persons with intent to ransom or sell,

9

Rogues and Vagabonds,

1

Forgery or ultering forged Bank Notes, &c., ...

G

***

Street Gambling,

84

-

+

Found by Night in Dwelling Houses, or with Arms, or House-breaking im-

plements with Intent to cominit Felony, Furious Driving,

Trespass on Crown Lands,

FOR

***

Unlicensed Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys,

3

*

*

Unlicensed Coolie Houses,

Highway Robbery,

4

---

**

Unlicensed Hawking....

春节嘍

1

***

Illegally holding a Public Meeting,...

Unnatural Offence,

100

***

I

Indecent Assault,

24

Illegally purchasing Soldier's Kit, &c.,...

Indecent Exposure of Person and Lewdness,

-

Unlicensed Plying of Boats, .

4

Unlawful Possession of Property,

13

Unwholesome Provisions, exposing for Sale, and bringing into Colony,...

Intimidating Witnesses,

2

-

Kidnapping,

20

1

2

40

15

10

2

2

14

..

481

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174

KAN

20

27

2

1

220

I

17

323

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TOTAL NUMber of CaseS,...

A

6,400

3,002

Go

13

33

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32

23

4

2

590

...

370

R

12

A

++

2

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Larcenies,

G

-

+

and

524

P

80

-

Larceny from the Person,

60

-

Carried forward,...

1,891

Carried forward....

8,002

C. MAY,

First Police Magistrate.