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SUFFOLK, a maritime county; bounded, on the N, by Norfolk; on the E, by the German ocean; on the S, by Essex; on the W, by Cambridgeshire.

The police force, in 1864, exclusive of that in Ipswich, Southwold, and Sudbury, comprised 204 men, at an annual cost of £15,072; and the crimes committed, in that year, were 272, the persons apprehended 200, the known depredators and suspected persons at large 1,117, the houses of bad character 168.