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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST DECEMBER, 1860.
[60 G. 3. c. 9.] [1 W. 4. c. 73.]
Bond to be given by Printer or Pub- lisher of Newspaper.
Attorney General or Plaintiff to sue.
New Suretics to be provided in certain cases.
Sureties may with- draw from Bond,
Rocovery of Penal- ties.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VICESIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 16 of 1860.
By His Excellency Sir HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Newspapers in Hongkong.
[30th November, 1860.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. That on and after the First Day of January next, no Person shall print or publish or cause to be printed or published, any Newspaper, until he shall have entered into a Bond before the Registrar of the Supreme Court, together with two sufficient Sureties, to the satisfaction of such Registrar-every Person printing or publishing any such Newspaper, in the Sum of Two hundred and fifty Pounds, and his Suretics in a like Sum in the whole-conditioned that such Printer or Publisher shall pay every such Fine or Penalty as may at any time be imposed upon or adjudged against him by reason of any Conviction for printing or publishing any Libel at any time after the entering into such Bond-and also all Costs of such Conviction; and as a further condition, that every such Printer or Publisher shall pay all such Damages and Costs as may be recovered or arise in any action for Libel published in such Newspaper. And every Person who shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published any Newspaper, without having entered into such Bond, with such Sureties as aforesaid, shall, for every such offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds, together with Costs of Conviction.
II. Every Bond so given as aforesaid may be sued upon in the name of the Attor- ney General in cases of Indictment or Information, and of the Plaintiff in any action for Libel in which Damages may have been recovered.
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III. In every case in which any Surety in any such Bond shall have been required and have paid, the whole or any part of the Sum for which he shall have become pay, Surety; or in case he shall become bankrupt or insolvent, or shall cease to be a resident in Hongkong, then and in every such case the Person for whom such Surety shall have been bound, shall not print or publish any Newspaper, until he shall have entered into a new Bond, with sufficient Sureties in the manner and to the amount aforesaid; and in case he shall print or publish any such Newspaper, without having executed such new Bond as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for every such Offence the sum of Twenty Pounds, together with Costs of Conviction.
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