We quote the following table of offences as a specimen of the monthly reports:
Police Office, St. John's, 1836.
RETURN OF OFFENCES REPORTED AT THE POLICE STATIONS FROM 1ST TO 31ST MAY.
| NATURE OF OFFENSES. | St. Johns | E. Harbour | Parham | Johnston's Point | Total | More than last month | Less than last month |
| Assaults. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Do. and Batteries. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 8 | ||
| Breach of Contract. | 4 | 11 | 59 | 74 | 16 | ||
| Burglaries. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Commitments under Vagrant Act. | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |||
| Do. for Fines | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Do. under amended Porter's and Jobber's Act. | 7 | ||||||
| Felonies. | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Injury to property. | 4 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 5 | ||
| Larcenies. | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Misdemeanors. | 3 | 12 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Murders. | |||||||
| Petty Thefts. | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Trespasses. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Riding improperly thro' the streets. | |||||||
| Total. | 33 | 41 | 76 | 150 | 25 | 61 |
Signed, Richard S. Wickham, Superintendent of Police.
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Superintendent's office,
Antigua, July 6th, 1836.
"SIR,--I have the honor to submit for your information, a general return of all offences reported during the last month, by which your Honor will perceive, that no increase of 'breach of contract' has been recorded.
While I congratulate your Honor on the successful maintenance of general peace, and a reciprocal good feeling among all classes of society, I beg to assure you, that the opinion which I have been able to form in relation to the behavior of the laboring population, differs but little from my late observations.
At a crisis like this, when all hopes of the ultimate success of so grand and bold an experiment, depends, almost entirely, on a cordial co-operation of the community, I sincerely hope, that no obstacles or interruptions will now present themselves, to disturb that general good understanding so happily established, since the adoption of unrestricted freedom."