30 Statistics of Van Diemen’s Land. 
By subsidiary returns, Nos. 74 and 75, it appears that the 
total number of Convicts in the Colony, including Tasman’s 
Peninsula, and Norfolk and Maria Islands, on the 31st Decem- 
ber, 1849, was 24,728, under the following arrangement :-— 
Per cent. 
Under probation or SeNteNCe.........c.cerceres eres 16°6 
MASS OMG CIR Ghee ssc i cove coe cesar ee eee is 39°9 
iieketsorcleave Woldersis. ese see eee 43°4 
Of the total of these several classes of Convicts, the pro- 
portion charged with offences before the Police Magistrate in 
1849 (exclusively of Tasman’s Peninsula, and Norfolk and 
Maria Islands) was, respectively, of those under probation 
or sentence 7°71 per cent., of pass-holders 71°52 per cent., 
and of ticket-of-leave holders 42°32 per cent. ; or 52°48 per 
cent. of the whole number. 
By another subsidiary return, No. 76,.to show the bearing 
of the crime of 1849 upon the free population, it appears 
that of the aggregate 49,3855, there were taken before Magis- 
trates 7038, or 14°8 per cent.,—in the proportion respectively 
of 1672 or 23°7 per cent. of those arrived free and born in 
the Colony, and 76°2 per cent. of those become free by 
servitude or pardon. Excluding the Military and children, 
the proportion of the “ always free” would be 9°18 per cent. 
of offenders. 
The following synopsis of the Criminal Statistics of 1849 
in ratio to the population is given in Table 77 :— 
Bond Free 
per cent. percent. 
i Oiences against the persom........-.. --asessese LA eles 
2. Ditto ditto property with violence... 0°52 O15 
Shem TEGO) cee hae VAGIENCE |... c...eecceueeceees 3°39 =: 1°38 
4. Malicious offences against property ........ 0°16 0°09 
EM PIOE CIV MOC CE Has icerescenauesxabsanes tneciersvae seers 0:19 0:08 
Orr O Ue ROMEMCES iio a. ts cseiieens cour eeoncesonememereeens 12°61 17°09 
7. Offences against Convict discipline _........ 33°87 0°36 
