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1. OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police or the Magistrates

during 1871.

Totnl Number of Offences

Offences ngninst the Person.

Predial Larceny."

reported.

Offences** ngninst Property (other than Predial Larceny.)*

Other Offences.

.0,610

851

Nil

748

5,017

**

By "Pradial Larceny" is meant the Offence prevalent in the Sugar-growing and Coolie-importing Colonies --of robbing provision grounds and homestends, It need not be filled up in Colonies where such crime is not prevalent; and, it being struck out, any other prevalent crime may bo substituted--ns Cattle Stauling, Arson, &c., &c.

**Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the subjects of Property,

II-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

Table showing the Number of Persons brought before the Magistrates' Courts by Arrest Warrant or Summons for Offences, mul how their Cases were disposed of

in the Magistrates' Courts,

Number Diselinrged

Number of Cases Dismissed

Number of Persons summarily Convicted.

the Merits.

Number of Persons Committed for Trial in the Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,

Prædial Larceny,

Offences against Property* other than Prædiul Lår- ceny,

D

Offences against Muster and Servants Acts, including

for want of

Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

87

170

3

B

9

25

3

Acts relating to Indon- tured Coolies,

Other Offences,

30

547

1,005

2

Total Number of Persong

Summoned or Apprehend-

ed,

12

043

1,800

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

* See foot note (**) above.