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rably contrived, being well supplied with naval stores 
of all kinds, and fitted up with every convenience 
for ship-building and repairs of vessels ; for which 
purposes a large stock of timber is kept up. The 
new dock constructed by Major Cooper is a noble 
work, scarcely inferior to the finest docks in Eu- 
rope. 
A court of judicature is held at Bombay by a single 
judge, with the title of Recorder, the authority and 
practice of this court being altogether conformable to 
those of the Supreme Court of Calcutta. The law 
practitioners are three barristers and eight attornies. 
That few crimes of magnitude occur at Bombay is 
proved by a public statement made by Sir James 
Macintosh, the Recorder, in May 1810, that for 
six years prior to that period he never had occasion 
to condemn any criminal to death. Petty crimes, 
however, are of frequent occurrence, the number of 
persons convicted between the 10th of June 1812, 
and the 24th of January 1814, amounting to no 
less than eight hundred and seven ; of whom eighty- 
six were for wounding, beating, and assaulting ; 
four hundred and seven for theft, and a hundred 
and ninety-one for vagrancy. The police magis- 
trate in his report on this occasion, describes Bom- 
bay as the resort of the vagrants and unprincipled 
of every province from the mouth of the Indus to Goa, 
who are mere sojourners for the purposes of thiev- 
ing, and immediately withdraw to the continent to 
realize their plunder and convert it into money. In 
1813, the famine which prevailed throughout Ajmeer, 
Guzerat, and Cutch, had caused an increased influx 
