28 Statistics of Van Diemen's Land. 
persons tried, 5°6 per cent. were originally free, 68° per cent. 
free by servitude or pardon, and 25°8 per cent. were convicts. 
Table 68 shows that there were 6 criminals executed 
within the territory during the year, being, it is satisfactory 
to state, 11 less than in 1848; and it is also recorded that 
there was no instance of capital punishment at Norfolk 
Island during the year. 
Table 69 furnishes particulars of the Gaols in Van Die- 
men’s Land on 81st December, 1849. They were 8 in num- 
ber, having 14 gaolers and turnkeys, and 37 javelin-men ; the 
total expense of the year being £5029 5s. ld.—The gaols 
will hold 151 prisoners in separate cells, but will contain 
709 when more than one sleeps inacell. There were 113 
males and 9 females in confinement at Michaelmas 1849, of 
whom 86 per cent. were for misdemeanors, and 64 per cent. 
for felonies. The instances of punishment within the walls 
of the prison during the year were 68, or double the number 
of the previous year. During the same period 214 cases of 
‘ sickness occurred in the gaols, 30 being the greatest number 
of sick at one time: but there were no deaths. 
Tables 70 to 77 relate to Crime in Van Diemen’s Land, 
being the Police and Magisterial statistics for 1849, and 
constitute a highly valuable set of returns. The aggregate 
total of persons, free and bond, taken before Police Magis- 
trates during the year amounts to 19,548, or 26°6 per cent. 
of the entire population.* The proportion of bond was 64 
per ceat., and of free 36 per cent.; and further analysis gives 
the following subdivisions of each class respectively :— 
Wmider probation | ....:-.--c.ccsreeseekeees 1:47 
BD OMe eaASS-NOlMErS .........0ceecs cena cocseceseoostens 63°45 
Ticket-of-leave holders ..........csccsocsss 30% 
* See note anie, p. 6. 
