after taking mont be guided by the
advice of the Attorney General,
Exercere
and use
your
own
discretion
to
As
on allowing or forbidding
a
Government Officer
in any case
to prosecute
a
Newspaper for libel.
3. It is of course very rarely desirable to
take official notice of
or to take legal proceedings
in respect of newspaper
Criticisms, but
any
allegation of improper
conduct to which public attention may be directed
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in a newspaper, should be
inquired into by the Government, whatever may
be the character of that paper,
should be inquired into by
the Government, unless
you have sufficient assurance to
know that the allegation
is altogether incorrect.
4. In regard to the publication of Government advertisements in the
local news papers.
in cases where great
publicity is desirable
it would be safer
than given by a simple
notice in the "Gazette"
you must use your own
discretion,
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it is generally advisable to use your discretion, taking into
consideration the probability
that each of the papers
among whom the advertisements may be circulated
is probably read by a certain
section of the population.
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