81) IRELAND.
Notes to Tables 15,16, 17.
(a.)
These Tables include only offences tried summarily.
All indictable oflences where the Court does not actually assume the power to determine the case summarily are excluded.
Further, these Tables include only cases where the proceedings are criminal—that is, lead if successful to a conviction.
There are a large number of cases which are quasi-criminal in character, but where the procedure is by complaint, leading, not to a conviction, but to the making of an order.
These are provided for in a separate Table-—No.
18.
(b.)
The Tables show the number of persons prosecuted, not the number of offences.
Where, therefore, any person is prosecuted at the same time for several offences, one offence has to be selected for tabulation, and the rules followed are the same as in Tables 1 to 5 (see note (/) page 40).
(c.)
The offences included under each of the titles of offences in Column 1 are stated on page 46 of the Criminal Statistics for the year 1895.
Notes to Table 15.
(d.)
Table 10 corresponds to Tables 1, 3, and 5, and (as regards length of sentences) to Tables 2 and 4.
(e.)
Column 5, " Committed to Industrial Schools," includes only those committals to Industrial Schools where an offence is charged—i.e.,
committals under Section 13 of the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act, 1868.
Other committals to Industrial Schools where the proceedings are not criminal appear in Table 18, and also in Tables 45 to 47.
(/.)
Columns 7 to 13, "Imprisonment," do not include the preliminary imprisonment in Reformatoiy School cases, nor terms of imprisonment in default of paying fine or of finding sureties.
(g.)
Column 14, "Reformatory School," contains all cases of persons sentenced to Reformatory School detention, whether they are actually admitted to a reformatory or not.
Details as to cases actually received in reformatories are given in Table 41.
(A.)
Columns 16 and 19, "Pine," include all cases where a fine is imposed, whether the fine is paid or not.
The number of persons committed to prison in default of paying fines is given in.
Tables 32 and 33.
{»,) Columns 17, 17a, and 20, " Recognizances," include all cases where the defendant is ordered to find sureties, whether the sureties are found or not.
It must be remembered, however, that the Table applies only to convictions, and that it does not include cases where a person is required to find sureties upon complaint.
These cases are included in Table 18.
Note to Table 16.
(k) this Table corresponds to Table 6.
Note to Table 17.
(1.
)^ Section (A ) of this Table gives the ages of all persons convicted summarily of indictable offences ; Section (B) however, contains only persons apprehended and convicted; persons convicted on summons have to be excluded on account of the difficulty of ascertaining their ages.
