(Y3)

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Marine Magistrate by Arrest Warrants or Summonses for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

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,

in the Marine Magistrate's Court.

Number Discharged

for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

+

a

Number of

Савев Dismissed

on

the Merits.

..

Number of

Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.

Persons Committed

for Trial in the Superior Courts,

:

30

:..

245

16

**

::

Total Number of Persons Summoned or Apprehended, ...

9

23

• See foot note (*) to Table I.

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III-SUMMARY CONVICTIONS. (Police Court.)

TABLE showing the Number of Summary Convictions for various Classes of Offences, and the kind of Punishments Inflicted.

Offences against Pro- perty other

Gam-than Malicious

Punishments.

Total Number of Offences.

Assaults and other Offences against tho Person.

Ma- licious Injuries

to Pro-

bling.

perty.

Property or Prædial Larceny.

Injuries to

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

to Indentured

Coolies.

Fino,

9,688

463

23

819

381

3,975

Imprisonment in

lien of fine or

surety,

2,841

118

11

861

452

866

Peremptory Im-

prisonment,

1,323

117

24

1,023

1

120

A

00

88

Whipping,.......

Shipmaster land- ing destitute liable to defray expenses,

:.

:.

1

Bound over with

or without

12

Buretics,

172

74

2

**

Total,...... 14,145

774

36 1,734

1,956

4,812

Other

Offen-

coa.

34

3,999

7

526

6

152

THE

:

47

:

1

84

4,756

NOTE.-Where there has been un 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.