16
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 14 in No. 33.
RETURN of the Number of Cases tried before the Honourable the Chief Justice, and Actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during
the Year ending the 31st December 1853.
Cases tried before the Honourable the Chief Justice in 1853.
63
$91,425 92
Judgment.
Total.
Court.
Number of Cases.
Amount of Debt and Damages claimed,
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
Nonsuit.
Cases.
Debt and Damage.
Total.
Judgment.
Number of
Court.
Cases.
Amount of Debt and Damages claimed.
Settled without
Trial.
Remaining in
Dependence.
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
Nonsur
Cases.
Debt and Damage.
Actions commenced in 1853.
Supreme Court :—
Common Law
28
Chancery
Nil
$130,316 43
Nil
17
Nil
Nil
Summary
84 (e)
Insolvency
Nil
14,158 71
Nil
19
Nil
Nil
3M 35 M
1
7
Nil
Nil
Nil
13
17
Nil
Nil
Nil
141
$168,277 51
Ecclesiastical
22 (ƒ)
Assets per appraisement 7,730 37
Appeals
1
Vice Admiralty Court
6
769 65
15,302 35
1
1
2
3
Supreme Court :——
Common Law
7(a)
$222,22 53
+ (6)
2
Chancery
1(c)
1
-
Summary
49 (g)
10,433 74
35
Insolvency
Nil
Nil
Nil
14
Nil
Appeals
1
769 65
Vice Admiralty Court
5 (d)
53,000 00
5
(a) Three of these cases were in dependence on the 1st January 1853 (the remaining three in dependence were settled without trial), (b) In one of these cases, marked as judgment for plaintiff, the verdict was for plaintiff on one count and for defendant on the others. (c) This action being "commission de lunatico," no amount can be stated.
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(d) Three of these cases were in dependence on the 1st January 1853. (Signed) W. H. ALEXANDER. Acting Registrar.
(e) In one of these cases the defendant was arrested on a capias issuing from the common law side, and was subsequently tried in the summary jurisdiction; verdict for $111 24. (f) In three of these estates there was a will, consequently the property was not appraised.
(9) One independence from 1852.
N. R. MASSON, Acting Deputy Registrar.
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STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. 17
inclusive. RECAPITULATION of RETURNS, showing the Progress of Hong Kong from 1848 to 1853 Enclosure 14 in No. 33.
229
Encl. 14 in No. 33.
HONG KONG,
Police Rates
arrived. Square-rigged Vessels
Years.
Revenue.
Grant. Parliamentary Expenditure.
under included
Revenue.
No.
Tons.
£
£
£
OF
1848
25,091
25,000
62,658
2,575
700
221,818
1849
29,507
23.617
25,000
38,286
3,116
902
293,465
1850
33,292
23,526
20,000
34,314
2,811
883
299,009
1851
32,983
23,721
15,500
34,115
2,958
1,082
377,084
1852
37,058
21,331
12,000
34,765
2,325
1,097
443,383
1853
39,917
24,700
9.200
36,418
2,704
1,103
447,053
7th April 1854.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
(Signed)
J. G. MACLEAN.
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