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Total Number of Causes.

Convicted and Punished.

Discharged.

Committed for Trial at

Supreme Court.

tained, pending orders of

Committed to Prison, or de-

the Governor.

To keep the Peace.

To be of good

behaviour.

To answer any

charge.

false charge, or giving false testimony.

Punished for preferring

ABSTRACT of CAUSES under COGNIZANCE at the Police Magistrates' Court, during the Year 1868.

CAUSES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.

Ordered to find Security

WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1868.

Warrants.

Undecided.

Attempt to cominit an unnatural Offence,

Administering Drugs,

Aiding Merchant Seamen to desert,

Allowing unnuzzled Ferocious Dogs to be at large,

Assaults,

Assaults at or in Connection with riotous Assemblages, Assaults accompanied with Damage of Property,

Assaults with intent to rob,

At large in the night without Passes,

Attempts to commit Felony,

Attempts to commit other Offences, Breaches of Ordinances:-

1

:

1

8

Contempts of Court,

M. I.

M.

F.

M.

F.

M.

F.

M. F.

M.

F. M.

F.

M.

F.

5,969

7,469 1,101 2,257

281

10

128

36

27

20

5

222

8

48

19 22

M. F. M. F.

10,209 1,439

4,053

281

54

130

132

33

2

Total Number of Prisoners,

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:

Chinese Offenders remaining in the Colony after order of Deportation, Conduct calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,

11,648

Brought forward........

4,685

2,154

Brought forward,...

2

Misconduct as Police Constables,

8,737

28

60

Misconduct as Private Watchmen,

44

Misconduct as Domestic Servants,

34

744

Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,

6

Cruelty to Animals,

1

Mutinous Conduct of Seamen, (on board steamer Tigre), Murder,

1

80

Catting and destroying Trees,

18

Negligently allowing Prisoners to escape,

5

Cutting and wounding, or inflicting bodily Injuries,

4

Neglecting to continue the Street Nos. over Houses,

3

375

Damage of Property,

66

Nuisances,

648

26

Dead Bodies-Burying Chinese elsewhere than in a Cemetery,

1

Obstruction of public Way by Hawkers, &c.,

850

1

Disinterring without Authority,

1

1

Defiling Streams,

8

Obtaining Money and other Property by false Pretences, Offences relating to Coin,...

18

9

...

Desertion from Her Majesty's Army,

1

Personating Bail,

For Regulation of Chairs and Vehicles,

94

Discharging Stones, &c., to Danger and Damage of Persons and Property,

4

Perjury,

For Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness,

197

Disorderly Behaviour,

637

Piracy,

For Registration of Houses and Servants, ...

151

Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with Dainage to Property,

36

Piracy with Murder,

For Suppression of Gambling,

35

Dog Stealing.

1

Posting Bills on Walls of Ilouses,

For Markets,

129

Embezzlement,

10

Prefering false Charges or giving false Testimony,

...

For Registration of Brothels,

7

Escape, aiding Prisoner to,

1

Receiving stolen Property.

Fo. Luildings,

21

Exercising the Calling of a Money-changer without License,...

Refusal of Duty by Merchant Seamen,

For Jails,

5

Extortion, or attempting to extort, by color of office as Police Constables,

Resisting Police in the Execution of their Duty

80

For Retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors....

28

False Imprisonment,

Rescuing Prisoners from custody of l'olice,

A

For Preparation and Sale of pri pared Upiuin,...

17

Firing Crackers in the Streets,

29

Kiotous Assemblage,

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For Gunpowder Storage,

1

Forcible Detention of Persons with Intent to ransom, &c.,

13

Robberies,

For Regulation of Mahomedan Cemeteries,

1

Found in Dwelling Houses by Night with Intent to commit Felony...

3

Rogues and Vagabonds,

For Pawnbrokers,

4

Found by Night with Arms or House-breaking Implements, with Intent to

For Harbor and Coasts,

1

commit. Felony,

Street Gambling.

For Cargo Boats,

8

Fraudulent Execution of Deeds, Ordinance 7 of 1865, Section 71,

For Regulation of Weights and Measures,

4

Furious Driving, &t.,

Breaches of Ilarbor Regulations,...

137

Harboring deported Prisoners,

Breaches of the Stamp Act,...

4

Harboring deserted Merchant Seamen,

Breach of Prison,

5

Highway Robberies,

Breach of Ordinance 1 of 1868, for more effectual Suppression of Piracy,

1

Indecent Assaults,

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Breaches of Recognizances,

4

Indecent Exposure of l'erson,

Breaches of Rules and Orders under Ordinance 2 of 1868, for Disarmament

Intimidating Workinen,

of Junks,

7

Breaches of Merchant Shipping Acts:-unlawfully using Certificate of Re- gistry, making false Declaration,

Larcenies,

2

Kidnapping with intent to send abroad,

Larcenies from the Person,

Bribery and Attempts to Bribe Police,

8

Libel,

14

Burglary,

Manslaughter,

121

Unlicensed Plying of Boats,

15

Unlicensed Dealing in

22

Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,

2

Unlicensed Billiard Tables,

...

7

Unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,

558

Uttering, forged Bank Note,

43

hension of the Offenders,

Shooting with Intent to do bodily Harm,

Trespass on Crown Lands,

Unlawful Possession of Property,

Unlicensed Hawking,

Unlicensed Stone Quarryme Stores and Old Metals,

Witnessing the Commission of Felony and neglecting to assist in the Appre-

326

1

108

32

268

153

18

11

44

1.

1

Child Stealing,..

21

Mendicancy,

Carried forward........

2,154

Carried forward......

6,737

TOTAL...

C. MAY.

1st Police Magistrate.

1

5,969

Defendants.

Total Number of

Summonses for Defendants.

Summonses for Witness.

Notices of Judgment and

Kehearing.

Distress.

Arrest.

Search.

For entering Cam-

bling Houses.

TOTAL.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1869.

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