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44033 READ
Pret 7 DEC 03
Hongkong, 17th. October, 1903.
Sir,
We have the honour to report as follows
on the instruction conveyed in C.S.0. No. 7732/1903.
2.
We enclose two schedules prepared, the one
in the Magistracy, the other in the Police Department, of which
the former relates to cases dealt with by a Magistrate and the
latter to cases reported to the Police.
8.
The schedule prepared in the Magistracy
relates to cases in which, upon conviction, there would be no
option of a fine, except in such cases as cutting shrubs in
which 40 out of 73 defendants (of whom three were discharged)
went to prison.
4.
That schedule, embracing mainly serious
offences, shows that 77 more cases and 74 more defendants were
before the Magistrates during the first three quarters of 1903
than during the whole of 1902.
5.
Though the Magistracy schedule does not
show a total of cases and defendants for the 3rd. Quarter of
1903, relatively in excess of the figures for the first two quarters, yet in certain offences e.g. returning from banishment
being found in a dwelling house at night with intent; larceny
in dwelling house; larceny from person; receiving stolen goods,
and Burglary, there is a palpable proportionate increase for
the third quarter over the first half of the year.
8.
These offences, be it noted, are in most
cases of a more serious order than common larceny in which
there has been a drop in the cases brought before the Magis-
trates from 834 for the first half of 1903 to 383 for the
third
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