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Total Number of Causes.

To be of good beha-

viour.

To keep the Peace,

and to be of good behaviour.

To answer any charge.

ABSTRACT of CAUSES under Cognizance at the Police Magistrates' Court during the Year 1867. 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 1867.

WARRANTS.

Punished for preferring false

charge, or giving false tes- timony.

M.

F. M. F. M.

F.

M.

F.

M.

1.

M.

F.

5,983

7,150 785 2,398

169 142 18 07

18

11

14

M. F. M.

F.

M.

F.

M.

F.

M.

F.

6

113

5

64

15

31

1 9,986 953 2,172

239

14

54

98

39

5

2,612

1

Abduction of Females.

Accessory after the fact in Felonies,

2

3

Accusing of Crime with intent to extort,

1

Total Number of Prisoners,.

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:

Brought forward,..

Chinese Offenders remaining in the Colony after Order of Deportation, Chinese Offenders remaining in the Colony after Conditional Pardon....

10,942 i

2,011

Brought forward,.

3,710

8

Libel,

1

I

Manslaughter,

4

Administering Drugs,

1

Conduct calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,

65

Mendicancy,

6

Aiding and abetting in desertion of Soldiers,

1

Confederating with Pirates...

1

Misconduct as Domestic Servants,

63

Aiding and abetting in the Commission of Offences,

3

Conspiracy to accuse of crime,

1

Misconduct as Police Constables,

12

Allowing unmuzzled ferocious Dogs to be at large,

7

Contempts of Court,

22

Misconduct as Private Watchmen,

67

Assaults,

779

Assaults accompanied with damage of property,

225

Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,

2

69

Cruelty to Animals,

Misprision of Felony .........................

1

6

Murder,

3

Assaults at or in connection with riotous assemblages,

7

Cutting and Destroying Trees,

26

Nuisances,

422

Assaults with intent to rob,..

14

Cutting and Wounding, and Inflicting Bodily Injuries,

17

Attempts to commit felony...

30

Damage of Property,.

Obtaining Money and other Property

False Pretences,

18

106

Attempts to Murder,

2

Dangerous Persons supposed to be Insane,.

Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkers, &c.,.

211

ย

Offences relating to Coin,.

17

Attempts to bribe Police Constables,.

7

Defiling Streams,

20

Offences relating to Workmen,

6

Breach of Ordinance for Bankruptcy,

At large in the night without Passes,

Buildings,

Cargo Boats,

Gunpowder Storage,

393

Demanding Money with Menaces,

Personating Bail,

3

1

Desertion from H. M.'s Army,.

1

37

Desertion of Merchant Seamen,

Personating Constables of the Police Force,

1

Perjury,

6

Desertions from the Police Force,

2

Harbor and Coasts,

Jails,

Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness,

52

Markets,

61

62720

Detention of Seamen's Effects,....

Piracy,.....

3

Piracy with Murder,

Disorderly Behaviour,

570

Disorderly Behaviour, accompanied with Damage of Property,.

48

Posting Bills on Walls of Houses without Consent,..

Preferring False Charges or giving False Testimony,

Embezzlement,

9

Rape,

Exposing Infant Children and Endangering Life,

3

Receiving Bribes by Police Constables,.

Pawnbrokers,

8

Extortion by Color of Office,

6

Police and Lighting Rates,

1

False Imprisonment..

Receiving Stolen Property,

1

Refusal of duty by Merchant Seamen,

Preparation and sale of Prepared Opium,

5

Firing Crackers in the Streets,

21

Registration of Brothels,

37

Forcible Detention of Persons with intent to ransom or sell,..

Refusing to Assist Police,

8

Registration of Houses and Servants,...

145

Forging or Uttering forged Documents,.

Removing Furniture with intent to Defraud,

2

Regulation of Weights and Measures,..

10

Found by Night with Arms or Housebreaking Implements, with intent to

Rescuing Prisoners from the Custody of the Police,

Resisting Police in the Execution of their Duty,

36

Regulation of Chairs and Vehicles,....

63

commit felony,

14

Robberies,

20

Regulation of Mahomedan Cemeteries,

1

Furious Driving,

1

Rogues and Vagabonds,

293

Retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, keep-

Highway Robberies,

6

Street Gambling,

487

ing Bowling Alleys, Billiard Tables, &c.,. Suppression of Gambling,.

41

Housebreaking,

5

Trespass on Crown Lands,

29

27

Indecent Assaults on Females,

6

Breaches of the Chinese Passengers' Act,..

4

Indecent Exposure of Person, .

Threatening Bodily Harm,

I

10

Unlawful Possession,

315

Breaches of the Harbor Regulations,.

155

Intimidating Workinen...

1

Unlicensed dealing in Marine Stores and old Metals,

4

Breach of Prison,

1

Keeping Disorderly Houses....

1

Unlicensed Hawking,

133

Burglary

Breaches of the Stamp Act,..

Breaches of Recognizances,

Burying Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Cemetery,..

Child Stealing,

Carried forward,.

5

Keeping unlicensed Coolie Houses,

48

5

Keeping unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,

Unlicensed Playing of Boats,

11

2

Witnessing the Commission of felonies and neglecting to Assist in the

8

Kidnapping,

21

1

Larcenies,

Apprehension of the Offenders,

2

595

13

Larcenies from the Person,

25

Total,.

5.983

C. MAY,

2,011

Carried forward,..

3,710

First Police Magis trate.

77

Undecided.

Total Number of Defendants.

Summonses for Defendants.

Summonses for Witnesses.

Notices of Judgment, and

Rehearing.

Distress

Arrest.

Search.

For entering Gambling

Honse.

TOTAL.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH FEBRUARY, 1868.