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TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.
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ance, and in either case in default of payment he shall be liable to imprisonment, without hard labour, not exceeding the scale provided in behalf by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
No. 3 of 1890.
telegram, etc.
protected
Every telegraphic message in respect of which the protection of this Ordinance is claimed shall be published with the heading "By Telegraph," and the name of the person, association, or company claiming such protection, and shall state the date and hour of its receipt in the Colony and of its publication, and such statement shall be prima facie evidence of the times of the receipt and publication of such message.
5. In any prosecution under this Ordinance the production of any telegram which purports to be a telegraphic message duly and regularly issued by any telegraph office in this Colony on its customary form shall be prima facie evidence that the message contained therein was received in this Colony by telegraph, from the place therein mentioned as the address of the person, association, or company therein named, and was duly delivered in this Colony to such person, association, or company.
6. (1) Every person who-
(a) forges, or wilfully and without due authority alters, a telegram; or
(b) utters a telegram, knowing the same to be forged or wilfully and without due authority altered; or
(c) transmits by telegraph as a telegram, or utters as a telegram, any message or communication which he knows to be not a telegram, shall, whether he had or had not an intent to defraud, be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, and, on conviction on indictment in the Supreme Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months.
(2) If any person, being in the employment of a telegraph company defined by this section, improperly divulges to any person the purport of any telegram, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, on conviction on indictment in the Supreme Court, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months.
(For the purposes of this section-
"telegram" means a written or printed message or communication sent to or delivered at a post...