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Returns of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of Certain Classes of Offences, during the Year

PUNISHMENTS

Description	Offences against Revenue Acts, etc.	Offences against property other than malicious injuries to property or simple larceny	Offences against Highway Acts	Assaults and other offences against the person	Malicious injuries to property	Gambling	Other offences including Acts relating to the social economy of the colony, indentured coolies	Masters and Servants Acts
Fines	22,007	141	12	1,527	142	1,969	18,271
Imprisonment in lieu of fine or security	19	24		64
Peremptory Imprisonment	1,598	98	11	143	1,789	727
Whipping	420	6	2	6	154	74	1,877	178
Juvenile Prison
Expelled from the Colony	1
Sentenced to House of Detention	48	18
Bound over with or without Sureties	610	199	1	3	38	3	358
TOTAL	27,805	448	27	1,684	2,079	2,797	12	20,757

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4.—ABSTRACT of Cases brought under Cognizance of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during a period of ten years 1919–1928, Cases, How DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER of Male AND FEMALE PRISONERS under each Head

Year	Total number of Cases	Convicted and punished	Discharged	Committed to Supreme Court	Committed for trial	Detained pending order of His Excellency The Governor	Ordered to find security	To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge	Did not appear when called	Escaped before being brought before the Magistrate	Escaped	Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony	Undecided	Total number of Defendants	Male	Female
1919	12,961	13,788	617	16	11	108	146		2	110	186	143	1	2,247	18,328	614
1920	15,267	15,520	695	18	726	304	1,662
1921	17,874	18,535	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1922	18,535	20,975	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1923	21,720	20,975	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1924	25,700	26,806	1,505	3,154	172	171	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090
1925	25,700	26,806	1,505	3,154	172	171	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090
1926	30,516	31,300	1,879	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090	2	823	200
1927	32,122	34,585	1,090	2	823	200	40,694	1,864	43	123	93,509	1,397
1928	28,468	28,101	1,005	1,501	160	103	10	100	37,300	1,516	3,167	292	84	978	1	150	30,148	1,263
Total	144,620	146,263	6,144	19,431	945	1,000	10	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Average per Year	28,594	29,033	1,228	3,886	189	18	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

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Returns of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of Certain Classes of Offences, during the Year

PUNISHMENTS

Description	Offences against Revenue Acts, etc.	Offences against property other than malicious injuries to property or simple larceny	Offences against Highway Acts	Assaults and other offences against the person	Malicious injuries to property	Gambling	Other offences including Acts relating to the social economy of the colony, indentured coolies	Masters and Servants Acts
Fines	22,007	141	12	1,527	142	1,969	18,271
Imprisonment in lieu of fine or security	19	24		64
Peremptory Imprisonment	1,598	98	11	143	1,789	727
Whipping	420	6	2	6	154	74	1,877	178
Juvenile Prison
Expelled from the Colony	1
Sentenced to House of Detention	48	18
Bound over with or without Sureties	610	199	1	3	38	3	358
TOTAL	27,805	448	27	1,684	2,079	2,797	12	20,757

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4.—ABSTRACT of Cases brought under Cognizance of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during a period of ten years 1919–1928, Cases, How DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER of Male AND FEMALE PRISONERS under each Head

Year	Total number of Cases	Convicted and punished	Discharged	Committed to Supreme Court	Committed for trial	Detained pending order of His Excellency The Governor	Ordered to find security	To keep the peace, to be of good behaviour, and to answer any charge	Did not appear when called	Escaped before being brought before the Magistrate	Escaped	Punished for preferring false charge or giving false testimony	Undecided	Total number of Defendants	Male	Female
1919	12,961	13,788	617	16	11	108	146		2	110	186	143	1	2,247	18,328	614
1920	15,267	15,520	695	18	726	304	1,662
1921	17,874	18,535	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1922	18,535	20,975	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1923	21,720	20,975	256	151	2,018	70	1,988	3,100	72	246	25	17	22	76	19	5
1924	25,700	26,806	1,505	3,154	172	171	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090
1925	25,700	26,806	1,505	3,154	172	171	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090
1926	30,516	31,300	1,879	4,009	242	178	8,540	149	83	376	136	13	34,585	1,090	2	823	200
1927	32,122	34,585	1,090	2	823	200	40,694	1,864	43	123	93,509	1,397
1928	28,468	28,101	1,005	1,501	160	103	10	100	37,300	1,516	3,167	292	84	978	1	150	30,148	1,263
Total	144,620	146,263	6,144	19,431	945	1,000	10	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Average per Year	28,594	29,033	1,228	3,886	189	18	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

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Returs of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of CEnvain Classes of Offences, during the Year.

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1,877

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448

1.684

2.079

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