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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

in the Marine Magistrate's Court.

Number Discharged

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

Number of Савез

· Dismissed

on

the Merits.

Number of

Number of

Persons Summarily | Persons Committed

Convicted.

for Trial in the

Superior Courts.

Offences against the Porson,

944

Gambling,

Offences against Property

(other than Prædial Lår- ceny),

Refusal of Duty,

Offences against Masters and

Servants Acts, including

Acts relating to Indentured Coolies,

Other Offences,

1

Total Number of Person18

Summoned or Apprehended,

4

:

:

* See foot-note (*) to Table I.

1

:

73

66

55

140

:

:

Other

Offen-

ces.

III.—SUMMARY CONVICTIONS. (Police Court.)

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

Punishmonts.

Total Number of Offences.

Assaults and other

Ma- licions

Offences

Injuries Gam-

to bling.

against the Person.

Pro-

perty.

Offences against Pro- perly 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

to Indentured

Coolics.

Fine,

10,366

437

66 1,210

328

3,356

20

20

4,949

Imprisonment in

lieu of fine or

security..........

1,500

16

34

293

204

2-18

IG

689

Peremptory Im-

prisonment,....

1,604

128

1,176

5

20

8

281

Whipping,....

84

8

47

69

10.

B

Escaped,

1

:

Solitary Confine-

ment,

1

:

:

:

F:.

:

:

Exposed in

Stocks,

1

***

Sent to House of

Detention,.

54

:

:

:

:

:

54

Bound over with

or without

sureties,

213

122

6

Total,...... 13,824

711

110 1,507

1,781

3

3,612

21

:..

.20

79

6,055

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.