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Table II.

RETURN of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of CERTAIN CLASSES of OFFENCES, during the Year 1906.

PUNISHMENTS.

Assaults

Description.

Number of against the ench kind Person.

inflicted.

and other Malicious

Offences Injuries to

Property.

Gam- bling,

Offences against Property other than Malicious Injuries to Pro- perty or Prædial Larceny.

Offences against Revenue Acts. Highway Acts, Health Acts, and

other Acts

relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.

Offences against] Masters ani Servants Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Coolies.

Other Offen-

ces.

Fines,

12,516

574

26

2,028

313

2,176

41

7,358

Imprisonment in lieu

of fiue or security, .

3,249

126

8

374

89

318

45

2,289

Peremptory Imprison-

ment,

620

45

3

378

:.

17

177

Whipping,.........

Solitary Confinement,

56

1

Exposed in Stocks,

736

21.

1

Sentenced to House of

Detention,..

32

Bound over with or

without Sureties,

341

181

10

:

:

54

574

1

139

31

32

10

97

TOTAL,

17,550

948

48 2,411

1,439

2,498

113

10,093

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