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HONG KONG

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT

Enclosure No. 14.

Hong Kong Police, including those in which no Persons were apprehended. RETURN of the Total Number of FELONY CASES coming under the cognizance of the

Total

Year.

Number of Cases.

Remarks.

1851 1850

488 674

Decrease in 1851, 186 cases.

Police Department, ì

(Signed)

C. MAY,

12th February 1852.

Superintendent of Police.

Enclosure No 15.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong

during the Year 1851.

CRIME.

7 Assault

1 Burglary -

1 Child stealing

3 Burglary and Larceny

1 Assault, with intent to rob

1 Attempting to set fire to a ship

1 Assault and false imprisonment

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1 Demanding money with menaces

3 Conspiracy to commit Piracy

3 Cutting, with intent to do grievous

bodily harm

(6) 1

7 Endeavouring to make a revolt

1 Escape

4 Extortion by a constable

(e) 6

Keeping a bawdy house

12 False imprisonment

1 Forgery

5 Larceny

3(f)6 Manslaughter

4 Murder

1 Obtaining money under false pre-

1 Perjury

tences

(4)5

8 Piracy

2 Receiving stolen goods

4 Piracy, with wounding

1 Piracy, with violence

6 Robbery

12 Robbery, with arms

I Robbery in the harbour

purpose of prostitution

2 Shooting at, with intent to maim -

4 Selling and purchasing a woman for

1 Sodomy

10 Stabbing with intent to do grievous

bodily harm

66 116

Total

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Acquitted.

Death.

Death recorded.

Transportation.

Hard Labour,

over One Year.

Hard Labour,

One year and

under.

Number of

Cases.

Number of

Persons.

Number of

Cases,

Number of

abandoned

Sentence.

Remarks.

Charge

Post-

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(a) One prisoner sentenced to pay a fine of 50% in lieu of imprisonment.

(b) Postponed from 1850.

(e) Imprisonment to commence at expiration of former sentence.

(d) Three of the prisoners sentenced to pay a fine of 50 dollars each, and to be further imprisoned till that fine

was paid.

One of these cases postponed from 1850.

(Two of these cases were postponed from 1850.

(g) Fined 200 dollars, and to be further imprisoned till it was paid.

Five of the prisoners were arraigned for murder, but found guilty of manslaughter.

() No jurisdiction.

(Signed)

ROB. DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.

W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.

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STATE OF HER MAJESTYS COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.

TOTAL,

Judgment.

Plaintiff.

Defendant.

Nonsuit.

Cases,

Debt and Damages.

Enclosure 16.

RETURN of the Number of CASES TRIED by the Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, and ACTIONS COMMENCED in the Supreme and Vice-Admiralty Courts of HONG KONG,

during the Year ending 31st December 1851.

CASES TRIED before the Honourable J. W. HULME in 1851.

SUPREME COURT:

&

Common Law

Chancery

Summary

Insolvency

Appeals

VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT

3

None.

71

Hearings - 2 None.

3

5,144 54

(a) 2

None.

12,924 70

Debts in schedule 11,798 08 None.

14,524

0

None.

46 Insolvent discharged None.

3

1

None.

20

Remanded

None.

None.

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None.

None.

5

None.

None.

None.

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ACTIONS COMMENCED in 1851.

Court.

Number

of

Settled

Amount of Debt and Damages claimed.

without

Cases.

Trial.

Judgment.

in

Remaining

Dependence.

TOTAL.

Plaintiff

Defendant. Nonsuit.

Cases. Debt and Damages.

Court.

Number of Cases.

Amount of Debt and Damages claimed.

C 3

SUPREME COURT:

Common Law

(b) 18

75,479 70

Chancery

None.

None.

Summary

101

17,531 24

Insolvency

2

Debts in Schedule

Ecclesiastical

(c) 20

Appeals

None.

VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT

5

Assets per Appraisement None.

7,476 80

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- 11,798 08

16,995 22

14

None.

29

None.

None.

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None.

46

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None.

None,

None.

20

5

Petitioner discharged

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None.

None.

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None.

1

None.

None.

None.

None.

None.

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N.B. Of the five Common Law Cases in dependence on the 1st January 1851, one was tried and four settled. The Summary Jurisdiction case was settled. Of the three Vice Admiralty Cases, two were tried and one is still in dependence, and the Chancery Cases are also still undecided. (a) In one of these cases the plaintiff has given notice of appeal.

710 Dollars.

(b) In three of these cases the defendant was arrested on a capias issuing from the Common Law side, and they were subsequently brought into the Summary Jurisdiction. The debt and damages in the said cases amount to (c) In five of these estates there was a will, consequently the property was not appraised. (Signed)

(Signed)

W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.

ROB. DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.