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I.--OFFENCES.
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1896.
Total Number of Offences
reported.
Offences against the Person.
Gambling.
Offences against Property (other than Prædial Larceny),
Other Offences.
Cases
17,767
831
133
1,695
15,108
Persons 19,568
1,080
749
1,917
15,822
TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1896.
Total Number of Offences reported.
Offences against the Person.
Refusal of Duty.
Offences against Property (other than Predial Lareeny).
Other Offences.
Persons
Cases
97
16
29
68
13
• Include both Offences against lights of Property and Injurios to the Subjects of Property.
13
8
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IL-APPREIJENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.
TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Police Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summonses for Offences, and how their Cases were disposel of
in the Police Magistrates' Court.
Number Discharged
for want of Proscention by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.
Number of Cases, Dismissed
ሶከ the Merits.
Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.
Number of Persons Committed
for Trial
in the
Superior. Courts.
Offences against the Person,...
Gambling, ....
59
58
141
1
16
605
:
Offences against Property
(other than Prædial Lar- ceny),
34
131
163
Offences against Masters aud
Servants Acts, including
Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,
1
85
107
4,418
Other Offences,
Total Number of Persons Summoned or Apprehended,...
* See foot-note (*) to Table T,
179
402
5,334
1