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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.

Number Discharged

for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining

or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cases Dismissed on the Merits.

Number of

P'ersons

summarily Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.

Offences against the person.. Prædial larceny

249 361

472 28

1,658

24

897

5

Offences against property

other than prædial larceny Offences against Master and

149

115

702

12

Servants Acts, including

Acta relating to inden- tured coolies

26

16

Other offences

197

351

349 2,505

82

Total number of persons

summoned or apprehended

982

882

6,113

123

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IV. INDICTMENTS AND INFORMATIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURts. Including Courts analogous to the Courts of Quarter Sessions in England, i. e., District Courts, &c.

State how the Cases

Tried in the

Superior Courts ended.

Include in the Returns below the Indictments for Attempts

and Conspiracies to commit the several Offences.

Total.

Murder other than Wife and Child Murder.

Manslaughter.

Attempt at Murder.

Murder of Wife, Reputed Wife, or Concubine.

Child Murder.

Concealment of Birth.

NOTE-Purely Civil cases in which Magistrates exercise jurisdiction are not to be included in this or the following Table.

* Include both offences against rights of property and injury to the subjects of property.

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Judgment for the Crown Judgment for the Prisoner 13 Prisoner found Insane

Case fell through for want of Prosecution, inclu- ding cases where a Bill WIS thrown out by Grand Jury..

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Abortion.

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Rape.

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Other Offences against the Person. Malicious Injuries to Property.

Unnatural Crimes.

Robbery with Violence.

::Prædial Larceny.

Other Offences against Property.

Miscellaneous Offences.

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III. SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.

TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various Classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishment inflicted.

Punishments.

Total Number of

Offences.

Assaults

and other

Malicious Offences Injuries against

to

the

Property.

Person.

Predial Larceny.

Offences against Property

other than Malicious Injuries to Property

or l'rædial Larceny.

Offences against Offences against

Revenue Acts,

Highway Acts, Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.

Masters and

Servants' Acta.

including Acts

relating to Indentured Coolies.

Other Offences.

V.-COMPARATIVE TABLE.

COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of Offences, Apprehensions, Convictions, and Acquittals for the last Four Years.

1871.

1872.

1873.

1874.

The number of summary convictions—

or summoned before the Magistrates

The number of offences reported to the police The number of persons apprehended by the police

7,002

5,666

5,190

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7,800

7,963

9,110

8,056

Fine

3.615

1,118

6

336

5

1,215

327

588

2. For prædial larceny

1. For offences against the person

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1,983

1,506

1,817

1,648

Imprisonment, in

lieu of fine or surety

Peremptory im.

prisonment

864

1,042

220

4

165

2

871

16

85

4. For other offences

3. For offences against property other than

prodial Inreeny

856

974

939

897

498

170

313

480

5,904

58

1

376

473

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2. For prædial larceny

1. For offences against the person

The number of convictions in the Superior Courts—

3,250

2,783

3,010

2,879

28

19

36

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Whipping

3. For offences against property other than

15

9

11

Bound over with

prædial larceny

35

4.4

32

or without suretics

Total

384 252

5,904 1,648

28

104

4. For other offences

23

5

897

480

1,674

346

848

1. In the Inferior Courts

The number of persons acquitted—

17

39

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1,313

2. In the Superior Courts

7

2,386 11

2,380 11

1,864

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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.

*Of the number acquitted in the Inferior Courts 982 was the number discharged for want of prosecution by the party complaining, or for want of evidence.

Inclosure 3 in No. 23.

IN reporting upon the Criminal Statistics for 1874, as required by his Excellency the Governor, for the information of the Right Honourable the Secretary for the Colonies, it is satisfactory to me to be able to say that I notice nothing either in the figures or in

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