(IGS)
1.--OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Magistrates during 1872.
Total Number of Offences reported.
10,705
Offences ngainst the Person.
Street Gambling.
Offences agaiust Property (other than Prædia. Larceny.)
Other Offences.
1,177
511
1,170
7,817
• Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the subjects of Property.
II-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Courts by Arrest Warrant or Suininons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of
Offences against the Person,
Prædial Larceny,
Offences against Property* other than Prædial Lar- ceny,
Offences against Master and
Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Inden- tured Coolies,
in the Magistrates' Courts.
Number Discharged
for want of
Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.
30
Number of Cases Dismissed
Number of Persons summarily Convicted.
the Merits.
on
185
145
1
1
Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
35
47
1
3
Other Offences,
78
418
3,004
3
Total Number of Persons
Summoned or Apprehend-
ed,
108
G02
3,246
NOTE.-Purely Civil Cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to he included in this or the
following Table.
* See funt note (*) above.