OF KAMAON. 



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No. of Prisoners. 



Murder, 4< 



Thefts above 50 rupees, 3 



Forgery, 1 



Perjury, 1 



Adultery, 3 



Petty thefts and receiving stolen 



property. 



Assaults, defamation, and other 



petty misdemeanor 



receivmg stolen "i 



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mation, and other "j 



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No. of Crimes. 



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17 



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In addition to the preceding, one murder, ana two thefts above fifty 

 rupees were perpetrated, in which the offenders eluded apprehension. Affrays 

 of a serious nature are of very rare occurrence, and even petty assaults are 

 not frequent. Decoities sometimes take place in the Bhdwar or Taraty 

 perpetrated by robbers from the neighbouring districts of Rohilkhand, to 

 which they return immediately after the commission of the crime. The 

 oflPence of adultery is, from the lax state of morals, extremely common among 

 the lower orders, but it seldom forms a subject of complaint in the court, 

 except when accompanied by the abduction of the adultress. Infanticide was 

 formerly practised among some Rajput families of high caste, attached to the 

 Raja's court at Srmagar, but since the emigration of these persons on the 

 Gorkha invasion, no case has ever occurred in the province. Suicide is very 

 prevalent among females of the lower classes. The commission of this act is 

 rarely found to have arisen from any immediate cause of quarrel, but is com- 

 monly ascribable solely to the disgust of life generally prevalent among these 

 persons. The hardships and neglect to which the females in this province 

 are subjected, will sufficiently account for this distate of life, as with a trifling 



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