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COPY.
No. 3 of 1894
TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.
1894
No. 1 of 1894, incorporated in No.4 of 1897.
No. 2 of 1894, repealed by No.43 of 1912.
No. 3 of 1894.
An Ordinance to secure the rights of property in telegraph-
ic messages, and to prevent the forgery and improper
disclosure of telegrams.
(20th May, 1901)
Short title.
Protection of certain tele- grams from publication
within certain period.
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Telegraphic Messages
Ordinance, 1894.
2. Whenever any message, transmitted by telegraph from
any place outside of this Colony, is received by any person,
association, or company in this Colony, for the purpose of
publication in any newspaper, or, by printed circular or
otherwise, to any limited number of persons members of or
subscribers to any such association or company, no person,
whether a member of or subscriber to such association or
company or not, shall, without the consent in writing of
such person, association, or company by whom such message
has been received, print or publish in any newspaper, or
in any letter or circular or other printed or written
communication, such telegraphic message, or the substance
thereof, or any extract therefrom, until after the expira-
tion of a period of thirty-six hours from the time of the
first publication of such message by the person, association.
or company receiving the same: Provided always that such
protected period shall not extend beyond forty-eight hours
from the time of the first receipt in the Colony of such
message: Provided, also, that the publication of any
similar message lawfully received in like manner by any