THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH FEBRUARY, 1888.
(4.) The subject;
(5.) The place of printing and the place of publication;
(6.) The name or firm of the printer, and the name or
firm of the publisher;
(7.) The date of issue from the press of the publica-
tion;
(8.) The number of sheets, leaves or pages;
(9.) The size;
(10.) The first, second, or other number of edition;
(11.) The number of copies of which the edition con-
sists;
(12.) Whether the book is printed or lithographed; (13.) The price at which the book is sold to the public;
and
(14.) The name and residence of the proprietor of the
copyright or of any portion of such copyright; such memorandum shall be made and registered in the case of each book as soon as practicable after the delivery of the copies thereof in manner aforesaid.
6. The memoranda registered during each quarter in the said catalogue shall be published in the Government Gazette as soon as may be after the end of such quarter and a copy of the memoranda so published shall be sent to the said Secretary of State for the Colonies.
7. Every printer who neglects to deliver three copies of any such book as is referred to in Section 2 of this Ordinance, or of any second or subsequent edition of any such book, to the Officer and in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty- tive Dollars.
8. Every publisher or other person, employing any such printer, who neglects to supply him in manner aforesaid with maps, prints or engravings finished and coloured as aforesaid which may be necessary to enable such printer to comply with the provisions of Section 2 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.
9. All pecuniary penalties imposed under this Ordinance may be recovered
on summary prosecution before a Magistrate.
10. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall have power to make such rules as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the objects of this Ordinance and from time to time to repeal, alter and add to such rules. All such rules and all repeals and alterations thereof and additions thereto shall be published in the Government Gazette.
11. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may by notification in the Government Gazette, exclude any class of books from the operation of the whole or any part or parts of this Ordinance.
12. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Comucil of Hongkong this 8th day of February, 1888.
Publication of memoranda registered.
Penalty for non-delivery of books by printer.
Penalty for non-supply
of books by publisher.
Modes of recovering ponalties.
Power of Governor in Council to
nake rules.
Power of Governor in Con neil to exclude any class of books from opera. tion of this Ordinance.
Commence- ment of Ordinance.
E
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 15th Jay of February, 1888.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
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