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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 12, 1906.

Table II.

RETURN OF DISTRESS WARRANTS FOR RENT issued during the year 1905.

439

(Ordinance No. 1 of 1883.)

Number issued.

Sold to pay Claims.

Number withdrawn.

Aggregate Rent involved.

Aggregate Sum recovered on sales.

435

256

179

$46,259.92

$20,092.47

Table III.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASEs tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1905.

Charges

Ch

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

CRIME.

1

2

Arson,

3

12

1

2

1

1

阳

1

1

Armed Robbery,

Attempting to murder,

2 | Conspiracy,

1. Defiling a girl under 12.

Assault with intent to rob,

1

Demanding money with menaces,.

I

* Detaining for ransom.

I

I

Disobeying an Order of Banishment,

1

}

Embezzlement by person in the Public Service of

His Majesty,

7 11

Manslaughter, (a)

Murder.

2

2 Perjury.

10

18

Robbery,.

2

D

Robbery with violence.

2 Setting fire to a dwelling-honse,

Throwing vitriol with intent to do grievous bodily

harin,

1

}

Uttering a forged Bank note,

1

1

Urtering a forged will,

1

B

Wounding with intent to maim,

41

71

Note-01 76 Persons.

SENTENCE.

abandoned. į postponed,

1

Convicted.

|_ Miu | Acquitted.

Death.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ | Death recorded.

- 10:

Hard Labour

over One Year.

Hard Labour Onc

Year and under.!

Solitary Confinement.

Privately flogged.

No. of Cases.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀│No. of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

8

1

17

2

54

17

1

41

11

20

+

5

Five not indicted are included under the heading of Charges abandoned,”

(a) In one case the Prisoner was fined $500.

Table IV.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

71 were indicted,

5

76

APPEALS

COMMENCED.

APPEALS TRIED.

JUDGMENT.

Number of Cases. No. of Cases.

Appellant. Respondent.

Pending.

Withdrawn.

Table V.

ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.

Actions instituted.

Number heard.

9

Settled or withdrawn. | Pending.

In 3 actions the ships were arrested.

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