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2.

)

109

three

years ago

as

to the excessive

use

of the lash

the lash in this Colony

and the increase of crime that

seemed to be partly due to the practice of branding Chinese

criminals and some other cruel and

occasionally illegal punishments of

the natives.

2.

Those returns include the criminal statistics of Hong Kong for

the

year

1879, prepared in the usual

course by the Registrar of the Perpreme Court, the Head of the ~ Police, the Police Magistrates, and the Superintendent of the baol. They also contain comparative

Gov

12455

tables of the number of criminale

for some years past. The Police

Magistrates give

an

abstract of cases

and convictions from 1870 to 1879

inclusive, and the Superintendent of

the number of

the Gaol

gives admissions to prison from 1862 to

1879 inclusive. In continuation of the Return of the Acting - Superintendent of the Gaol, of the! number of floggings from 1867 to 1876, which was laid before Lord Carnarvon in

my despatch 10103

of the 30th of August 1844, Superintendent now gives

gives the

the-

number of floggings up to the