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No. 2.

RETURN OF DISTRESS WARRANTS FOR RENT issued during the Year 1904. (Ordinance No. 1 of 1883.)

Number issued.

Sold to pay Number withdrawn.

Claims.

Aggregate Sum

Aggregate Rent involved.

recovered on sales.

410

232

178

$39,692.72

$17,317.66

ARATHOON SETH, Registrar.

Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1904.

Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

1

2

1

1

1

2

No. 3.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1904.

SENTENCE.

Charges

Самед

abandoned. postponed.

CRIME.

Assault with intent to rob,

Attempted murder,

Attempting to commit buggery,

Applying a false trade description to goods,

Arson,

Breaking into a Store and stealing therein,

By force detaining certain persons for the purpose

of emigration,

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

2

1

:

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:

Hard Labour

over One Year.

Hard Labour One

Year and under.

Solitary Confinement- Number of Persons. Privately whipped in adili-

tion to imprisonment, Number of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons,

No. of Cases.

No. of PersoDI.

2

1

3

I

ล

:

2

3

1

1

:

Causing false trade description to be applied to

goods,

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Child stealing,

3

3

Conspiracy to pervert justice,

2

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Defilement of unmarried girls under the age of 12

years.

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Demanding money with menaces,

I

Disobeying Order of Banishment,

1

Embezzlement,

1

Forgery,

Forging a request for delivery of goods,

Forging a receipt for money,

Larceny,

Larceny in a dwelling house.

Libel,

1

Larceny as a bailee,

Manslaughter..........

3

2

Maliciously setting fire to certain goods in a dwell-

ing house..

1

3

Murder,

3

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Obtaining a bribe as a public servant,

1

Offering a bribe to a public servant,

3

3

Procuring a bribe to be offered to a public servant,

(d)

2 Receiving stolen goods..

2

Robbery,

1

14

Kobbery being armed,

10

10

Robbery with violence,

5

Shooting with intent to murder,

1

Unlawful woundling,

1

Uttering a forged Bill of Exchange,

Uttering forged Banknotes,

3

Uttering a forged receipt for money....

Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

49

79

68

11

3

49

15

35

22 12

18

Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1904.

Note.-Of 97 Persons committed....

The 18 who were not indicted, are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,"

(a.) 2 of them were further summarily convicted to undergo three months' imprisonment with hard labour for having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in open Court. (5.) Also fined $250 in default of payment to be further im-

prisoned for six months.

ARATHOON SETH, Registrar.

79 were indicted.

18

97 Persons.

(e) One of them was sentenced to be imprisoned with hard labour

for life.

(d) Prisoner fined $500, Fine paid.

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APPEALS

COMMENCED.

Number of Cases. No. of Cases,

7