§ MR. W. S. CAINE (Bradford, E.) moved for a Return of the number of persons (1) brought to trial in each Province of British India in each year from 1883 to 1892, inclusive, for offences for which capital sentences might be inflicted, specifying those originally tried by the High Court in each Presidency Town, and those originally tried by the Mofussil Sessions Courts; (2) the number of persons sentenced to death for each offence by the High Courts originally and by the Sessions Courts, also the number of instances in which the capital sentences of the Sessions Judges were upheld, reversed, or commuted by the High Courts as Appellate or Confirming Courts; (3) the number of persons who received other sentences than death, or were acquitted; and (4) the number of persons reprieved.
§ Motion agreed to.