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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.