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servants and others employed in the houses, stores, and 

 shops of the merchants, traders, and others about Colombo, 

 while in the Jaffna and Chilaw districts, where the 

 inhabitants are scattered over a greater extent of country, 

 and where European tastes and habits have not obtained 

 such a hold upon the minds of the people, property is more 

 secure ; but quarrels, assaults, and even murder, are but 

 too common. 



Years. 



Crimes 

 against 

 Property. 



Crimes 

 against 

 Person. 



Com- 

 bined. 



Against 

 Local 

 Ordi- 

 nances. 



Total. 



1844 

 1845 

 1846 

 1847 

 1848 



To September 30, 1845' 



92 

 90 

 129 

 199 

 151 

 150 



40 

 38 

 40 

 104 

 71 

 23 



12 

 7 

 11 



54 

 29 * 

 25 



34 

 28 

 66 

 94 

 83 

 21 



182 

 163 

 246 

 451 

 334 

 219 



Grand Total 



818 



320 



138 



326 



1,529 



Table of crime as prevailing in 



different districts : — 



One hundred Prisoners from 



Convicted of 

 Offences against 



Com- 

 bined. 



Total. 







Property. 



Person. 





Kanay 

 Colombo 



Chilaw and Jaffna 



67 

 74 

 38 



22 

 14 

 27 



14 

 12 



35 



100 

 100 

 100 



To those who watch the progress of the native mind, 

 and the effects of contact with European usages, the 

 foregoing details will, I trust, be found interesting, as the 

 narrative of the introduction of prison discipline into this 

 Colony. That much yet remains to be done there is no 

 doubt : the jail as a Government institution may be said 

 to be only in its infancy, and who can say what will yet be 

 effected ? 



In future years, as opportunities offer, it would be well to 

 watch the after-career of those released prisoners who have 



