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Table II.

RETURN of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of CERTAIN CLASSES of OFFENCES, during the Year 1907.

PUNISHMENTS.

Assaults and other offences

Number of against the

Malicious Injuries to Property.

Gam- bling.

Description.

ench kind

Ierson.

inflicted.

Offences against Property other than Malicious Injuries to Prop- erty or Prædial Larceny.

Offences against Offences against

Revenue Acts, Highway Acts, Health Acts. and other Acts relating to the Social Economy of the Colony.

Masters and Servants Acts, ¦

including Acts relating to Indentured Coolies.

Other Offences.

Fines,

11,710

428

69

2,150

17

2,874

21

6.151

Imprisonment in

lien of fine or

security,

2,900

69

12

311

11

107

نا

Peremptory Im-

prisonment,

834

54

1

474

2

2,08+

303

Whipping,........

29

N

:

27

Solitary Confine-

ment,

:

:

Exposed in Stocks,

757

1

:

611

138

Sentenced to House

of Detention,

40

1

30

9

Bound over with or

without Sureties,

480

280

18

2

28

12

1

139

TOTAL,

16,750

839

101 2,463 1,198

3,297

28

8,821