(Y3)
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Marine Magistrate by Arrest Warrants or Suminonses for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of
in the Marine Magistrate's 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 Persons Summarily Convicted.
Number
of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.
Offences against the Person,...
Gambling,
Offences against Property* (other than Prædial Lar- ceny.......
Refusal of Duty,.
Offences against Masters and -Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,
Other Offences,
1
36
18
Total Number of Persons
Summoned or Apprehended,
55
:
:
:
❤
6
* See foot note (*) to Table I.
**
32
:
70
106
III. SUMMARY CONVICTIONS. (Police Court).
TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various Classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishments Inflicted.
Punishments.
Total Number of
Assaults and other Offences
Ma- licious
Injuries Gam-
to bling.
Offences. against
Pro-
the Person.
perty.
Offences against Pro- perty other than Malicious Injuries to Property or Prædial Larceny.
Offences against Revenue Acts, Highway Acts,
Health Acts, and other Acts, relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.
Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts relating
Other
Offen-
ces.
to Indentured
Coolies.
Fine,
7,521
306
29
593
249
2,755
31
9,559
Imprisonment in
lieu of fine or
surety,
1,397
106
992
226
447
6
317
Peremptory Im-
prisonment,...
956
161
27
669
24
74
:
Whipping,.......
36
17
19
Reformatory,
4
01
2
÷
:
Bound over with
or without suretics,.
192
79
6
223
22
6
2
Total,...... 10,106
671
39 931
1,170
3,204
77
61
1,027
NOTE.—Where there has been an Appeal from the Magistrate's decision the case is to be entered as finally decided, and not necessarily according to the Magistrate's original decision.