"have so long poisoned the atmosphere of the Colony."
2. There is at present but one Ordinance in existence which has relation to the publication of Newspapers; that Ordinance is A.2 of 1844, which was the second Ordinance passed in the Colony, and it merely provides that every printer and publisher of a periodical work shall appear before the Chief Magistrate of Police, and make a declaration that he is the printer and publisher, and that the printing or publishing is carried on upon premises described.
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No Bond is entered into or security given for the payment of any fine which may be inflicted, or any damages which may be recovered in any action for the publication of a libel.
4. A very small sum of money will be sufficient to provide the materials for printing a Newspaper of the kind usually published in the Colony, and even those may be protected by a fictitious or fraudulent transfer. There is nothing therefore to prevent any person without either character or Capital from establishing a paper, and publishing daily or weekly libels, leaving the Government on...
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