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I. OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Magistrates during 1877.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against the Person.
Gambling.
Offences against Property (other than Prædial Larceny).
Other Offences.
Persons, 10,717
Cases, 9,283
779
589
649
1,976
315
1,712
7,313
6,667
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1876.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against the Person.
Gambling.
Offences* against Property (other than Predial Larceny).
Other Offences.
195
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* Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the subjects of Property.
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II. APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summons for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of in the Magistrates' Court.
Number Discharged
for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.
Number of Cases Dismissed
on
the Merits.
Number of Persous summarily Convicted.
Number
of
Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
Offences against the Person,..
Gambling,
20
:
Offences against Property
other than Predial Lar- ceny,
Offences against Master and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,
Other Offences,
61
70
2
95
242
9
10
1
3
00
10
463
1,760
:
Total Number of Persons Summoned or Apprehended,..
40
036
2,101
3
*Sec foot note
above.