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to swell the total of long- sentenced prisoners. Repeated convictions and the heavy sentences imposed by Sir Edmund Hornby and the apistant Iudge have considerably checked if not entirely eradicated the so ontrages- Care has been laten on their release to remove these men as far as possible from China, and I am led to believe that they have "cither abandoned their previous modes of life, or have not found their way again to the old scene of their depredations; at all

events I am not Cognizant of more than one case of reconviction. The New Consular Gaol in Shanghai will. I apprehend be open this year for the reception of all prisoners sentenced at Treaty Ports, which will considerably lessen the mumber of prisoners in this Colony.

Crimes, ter

I have of late

5.

years

noticed a remarkable diminution in the I number of Crimes and serious offences which I believe is traceable to the deterrent effect on the Chinese Criminal classes of the system of prison parrishments,- (Publie whisching and ultimate deportation) Established under the present Government, and to the beneficial operation of certain Ordinances, more especially "The Hearbor and Coast's Ordinance" (N°6 of 1866) "The Ordinance for the suppression

Solitary of Pirney" (No 1 of 1868), and that for whipping" Anfinsment in certain cases

(Ne 3 of 1868).

and

The total annual numbers of prisoners committed to Garl for every species of offence from the 10! January 1864 to the 314 Decembu 1869, were.

1864

1865 1866.

1867

1868

1869

3822

6246

6660

3896.

4546.3659

Americans that

of

· 197

year

than in 1867, whilst I find that the total number

Serious offences with 1458 in 1867.

in 1868 was 1256 as compared-

The total annual numbers of prisoners convided as the Supreme Court, Hongkong from 1888 to 1869 inclusive, were

1863

1865

1864.

1865 1866 1867

186.8 -

1869

200. 178.

145.

$..

$1.

76.

Showing & Steady decrcase for the last four

The following table shews the number

of

years.

-

Prisoners excented

from 14th of January 1889 15 3101 December.

-1869

year

[(Crime)

(Crime')

Total numbe

Mourder Piracy telbauda!

Executed

1862

&

14

1863

2

7

9

1864

暴

1865

12

13

13

14

1867

4

S

1868

1869

Folab

IS.

45.

ba.

1866-

Is Meurder

Committed

out of the Colony

Note

The slight increase in 1868 is ascribable to Minor Offences". Under the heading of Drunkenness for instance, there were charges brought against Europeans and upwards of

tes more

b.

Note! Deportation.

existence for

sone

years.

Chinese Prisoners.

The System of Deportation though in

was rarely enforced before the arrival of -