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County of St. George 2,495 offenders: males, 2,228; females, 

 267 ; felony and misdemeanour, 2,265 ; debt, 230 ; yearly ave- 

 rage, 499 ; population, 39,639 ; ratio, 1'25 per cent. 



County of Victoria. 1,271 offenders: males, 1,163; females, 

 108 ; felony and misdemeanour, 987 ; debt, 282 ; yearly average, 

 254; population, 10,000; ratio, 2'54 per cent. 



County ofCaroni. 548 offenders: males, 521 ; females, 27; 

 felony and misdemeanour, 456 ; debt, 92 ; yearly average, 109 ; 

 population, 7,300 ; ratio, 1-60 per cent. 



County of St. Patrick. 389 offenders : males, 358 ; females, 

 31 ; felony and misdemeanour, 382 ; debt, 7 ; yearly average, 

 78 ; population, 4,650 ; ratio, 1*67 per cent. 



Counties of St. David, St. Andrew, and Nariva, unitedly. 18 

 offenders : males, 16 ; females, 2 ; felony and misdemeanour, 12 ; 

 debt, 6; yearly average, 3'60; population, 2,349; ratio, 0-76 

 per cent. 



The county of Victoria has the largest proportion of offenders ; 

 viz., 2*54 per cent. St. Patrick comes next, its proportion being 

 1*67 per cent. The county of Victoria is the most important 

 agricultural district of the colony ; but, at the same time, the one 

 which shows the lowest proportion of small independent proprie- 

 tors, as well as by far the greatest number of day or estate labourers, 

 and though in it is also congregated the largest contingent of 

 immigrants, yet very little or no ground provisions are raised. The 

 population of the villages, and of the suburbs of the town gene- 

 rally, may be characterised as turbulent and insubordinate. 



There is also a great proportion of immigrants in the county 

 of St. Patrick ; viz., at Cedros and Oropouche : this latter ward is 

 mainly inhabited by half-savage Africans, and nearly all cases 

 thence are of felony and misdemeanour. There are in this district 

 a good many small proprietors. 



Next to the county of St. Patrick comes that of Caroni, which 

 gives the ratio of offenders at 1'60 per cent. In this county are 

 located many immigrants, especially in Couva and Savonetta, 

 and the average of small proprietors is comparatively very large. 



In this district, the proportion of debtors is much larger than 

 in that of St. Patrick. 



The proportion of small proprietors is very great in the county 

 of St. George, and that of immigrant labourers comparatively small ; 

 but the population of the town of Port of Spain represents two- 



