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1.-OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police or the Magistrates during 1873.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against the Person.
Offences against
Gambling.
Property (other than Predial Larceny).
Other Offences.
9,546
898
204
1,033
7,351
* 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 Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of in the Magistrates' Courts.
Offences against the Person,
Gambling,..
Offences against Property* other than Prædial Lar-
ceny,
Offences against Master and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Inden- tured Coolies,
Other Offences,
Total Number of Persons
Summoned or Apprehended,
Number Discharged
for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.
100
:
Number of Cases Dismissed
the Merits.
00
Number of Persons summarily Convicted.
110
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B
11
52
C1
2
3,007
2
438
335
502
444
3,278
Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
1
に
*
00
NOTE.-Purely Civil Cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to be included in this or the
following Table.
* See foot note (*) above.