CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877 — Page 414

shows an

cricrease

(4)

Mendicants.

1876- 286

405

cazes

about 18,000

Govt. Gazeta

109 of 1877

6.

Street

Gives

200

Cases.

4x

12 per cent

in the population

of the

in itself sufficient

Colony

since 1874.

which is

Ace Ornt-

for what appears

ains a te

les factory.

The increase

خت

especially

Annual

in Minor Offences

Helusive

when the

totals

are

scone

ཊ2༥

sidered

For ei

addition

z

increase of population

which

materially affects this branch of

the subject,

there offences.

con lained

come

re

often

committed through ignorance retter

then mation,

The following large

items have first appeared

on the charge sheets

vance

1871. (a)

berides

Ther

offences

created by by

OrdenancA ·

A&t. Riso

The following

8x7

Coins

They

1875-

of 1877

4. The increase in Miscellaneous Offiences is caused by the number of persons arrested as Men- dicants and as unlicensed Hawkers.

9. Considering the returns for the year as a whole, they may fairly be deemed satisfactory, especially when the developement of the City, and of certain Villages, is considered, as well as the increased facilities that have been afforded for the influx of strangers into the Colony.

9.

With reference.

question of Crime

to the general-

cin

in my report for 1876

I think tha

o! hot. 2°

I have pointed out

where

The week

2 of 1876.

print lies.

A Commission is now considering the question of punishments, &c., in the Gaol, and it is to be hoped that their inquiries may result in the recommendation of some system that may render that establishment more disagreeable to ex-convicts, than it appears to have been from the experience of past years. The fact that the number of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment at the Magistracy shows a proportion of two old offenders to three persons arrested on the first known charge demonstrates the desirability of making imprisonment more deterreut.