HONG KONG.
Total.'
Civil.
16
Of which
were
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 17.
Enclosure 17.
ABSTRACT of CAUSES under Cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office
and the Court of Petty Sessions of Hong Kong, during the Year 1851.
MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE.
COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS,
Civil Causes
Number
of Causes.
Civil Causes how disposed of.
Criminal Causes how disposed of,
Number
of Causes.
how
disposed of
Criminal Causes how disposed of
Committed or bailed for
Trial at the Supreme
Court.
Total.
Civil.
Criminal.
Of which
were
M. F.
M.
F.
M. F.
M. F. M. F. M. F.
588 350 238 199 55
87
5
4 371 5 185
77
3
3
Demanding property with menaces
Relating to coin
Malicious damage to property
Assaults
Vagrancy
Combination among workmen
Breach of prison
1
103
2
3
1,338
911,247
Decree for Plaintiff.
Decree for Defendant.
Total Defendants.
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Convicted, and punished.
without
Punishment. Discharged
Released on Security.
Deported.
Committed or bailed for
Trial at the Supreme
Court and Court of
Committed to Prison pending Delivery to the
Petty Sessions.
Chinese Authorities ac-
cording to Treaty.
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M.
F.
M
F. MF.
Civil Causes :-Consisted of claims for debt or damages not exceeding $50., for police rates, and by seamen for wages, &c.
Among the Criminal Causes summarily decided were for
Larceny, receiving stolen goods, &c.
Keeping public gambling houses
False balances and weights
158
3
4
1
251
89
1
I
Undecided.
Total
Writs issued by Magistrates.
Warrants.
REMARKS.
Summonses.
Subpoenas,
15
76
15 1,908 80 642 25 872 46
5314 1 306
7
18
131,013 361
70 45
6
5
Breaches of regulations for sale of intoxicating liquors
14
Unlicensed retailing of opium
5
Perjury
IL
Desertion and refusal of duty by seamen in British vessels Desertion and refusal of duty by seamen in Foreign vessels
75
9
Distress.
Arrest.
Search.
Under the Head of “Causes how disposed
(Signed)
C. B. HILLIER,
fare included such Causes as were brought! Before the Court for decision. Those which Į
-uns 10 ans un pudo sexo ou no
Head of "Total Writs issued." under the
Chief Magistrate.
Enclosure 18.
Enclosure 18.
RETURN OF VESSELS, TONNAGE, and FLAG anchored at
the Port of Hong Kong, from 1842 to 1851 inclusive.
1846.
1847.
1848.
1842.
1843.
1844.
1845.
1849.
18.50.
1851.
FLAG.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No. Tous,
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
523 177,114
499
British
American
336
124,357
439
163,206
463
168,187
513
173,540
164,920
457
146,681
22
6,759
34
11,073
47
13,681
103
35,789
73 25,022
92
80,697
118
45,910
610 108
189,790
501 163,307
548 187,492
43,558
130
57,175
163
85,610
23
7,582
22
Spanish
11
2,718
10
2,454
12
3,007
19
4,946
5,569
23
4,810
33
8,945
33
6,524
23
6,512
9
Dutch
6
782
5
1,364
3
664
8
2,325
2,538
7
2,038
9
3,305
13
4,181
21
8,672
19
6,893
1
305
3
Danish
2
700
5
1,308
4
1,245
1,070
2
309
3
1,365
16
3,459
10
2,969
300
4
1,150
6
French
1,357
2
638
1
321
1,630
2
423
11
3,927
11
3,366
1,214
3
Hamburgb
1
266
86
1,118
776
5
1,977
1,332
14
5,706
27
8,144
1,105
1,200
Prussian
379
1
130
Mexican
125
226
8
900
2
503
7
737
298
Portuguese
Swedish
250
1,563
1,032
1,612 160
2,384
400
I
243
9
3,240
12
3,348
304
300
4
480
1,330
1,210
3
1,708
15
5,879
Bremen
300
750
Belgian
Peruvian
Bally
Russian
400
100
317
1,155
3
1,899
9,045
1,554
900
1,036
2
400
342
300
680
2
890
1,698
720
3
$63
355
468
Hawaian
Chilian
Siamese
Sardinian
194
2
280
200
562
400
670
1,830
349
2
842
1,742
783
Norwegian
Hanoverian
Burmese
Chinese
377
530
128
12 8,700
Do..
Steamers from India
do. Canton River
3,550
13
2,379
12 30
11,510
12
11,985
12
6,954
42
7,686
97
27
13,728
12 12,428
17
17,768
24,508 105
25,228 *207
41,472
Totals
381
136,336
497
180,572
538
189,257
672
226,998
675 229,255 694 229,465
700
228,818
902
293,465 883 299,009 1,082
377,084
Victoria, Hong Kong,
30th January 1852.
*These are, properly speaking, 207 arrivals during the year by 5 steamers plying between Hong Kong and Canton.
C 4
(Signed)
E. R. MICHELL,
Acting Harbour Master.
17
130
HONG KONG.
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