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Attorney General or Plaintiff to

ste upon Bonds.

¡S. 2, No. 16 of 1860.)

New Suretice

in certain

cases.

[[bid. 1.3.]

Withdrawal of Sureties. [Ibid. a. 4.]

Custody of

Bonds.

(S. 6 of No. 16

“of 1860,

Altered.]

Declaration

by possessor. [s at No. of

Search.

Inspection. Certified

copies.

[No. 2 of 1844,

5 V. c. 60 s.

3.

3, 5, 4 and

131

45

Copies of entries, &c. in Register to be evidence of contents

[44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 15, substituted for No. 2 of 1844, 6s. 3, 5 in Part]

This covers

6 of No. 2 of 1844

MULAN JAGANA

printer or publisher or printer and publisher shall pay every fine or penalty as may at any time be imposed upon or adjudged against him by reason of any conviction for printing or publishing or printing and publishing any Libel at any time after the entering into such Bond and also all costs of such conviction; and further conditioned that every such printer or publisher or printer and publisher shall pay all such damages and costs as may be recovered or arise in any action for Libel published in such newspaper or paper; and every person who shall print or publish or cause to be printed or published any newspaper or paper without having entered into such Bond with such sureties as aforesaid shall upon conviction for every such offence be liable to a penalty of $100 together with the costs of conviction.

15. Every Bond so given as aforesaid may be sued upon in the name of the Attorney General of the Colony in cases of indictment or information and of the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any action for Libel in which damages may be recovered.

16. In every case in which any surety in any such Bond as aforesaid shall have been required to pay and have paid the whole or any part of the sum for which he shall have become Surety; or in case he shall become Bankrupt or shall cease to reside in the Colony, then and in every such case the person for whom such Surety shall have been bound shall not print or publish any newspaper or paper until he shall have entered into a new Bond with sufficient Sureties in the manner and to the amount aforesaid; and in caso he shall print or publish any such newspaper or paper with- out having executed such new Bond as aforesaid, he shall be liable on conviction for every such offence to a penalty of $100 together with the costs of conviction.

17. If any Surety as aforesaid shall be desirous of with- drawing from such Bond, it shall be lawful for him to do so upon giving twenty days previous notice in writing to the Registrar and also to his principal; and in every such case such Surety shall upon the expiration of such notice cease to be liable upon such Bond except for any penalty or penalties damages or costs for or in respect of any Libel which may have been printed or published in such news- paper or paper previous to the expiration of such notice and for which he would otherwise have been liable under such Bond; and in every such case the person for whom such Surety shall have been bound shall not print or publish any newspaper or paper until he shall have executed 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 or paper without having entered into such new Bond as aforesaid, he shall be liable on conviction for every such offence to a penalty of $100, together with the costs of conviction.

18. All Bonds entered into in pursuance of this Ordi- nance shall upon execution be deposited with the Registrar for safe custody.

PART III.—Printing Presses.

19. From and after the expiration of seven days from the commencement of this Ordinance no person shall within the Colony keep in his possession any press for the printing of newspapers books or papers who shall not have made and subscribed before the Registrar in the Newspaper Re- gister a Declaration according to the form No. 4 in the Sche- dule hereunto annexed, such Declaration to be made in like manner as is prescribed for the Declarations herein- before mentioned, and whoever shall keep in his possession any such press without making such Declaration shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $3,000, and imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

PART IV.-General.

20. All persons shall be at liberty to search and inspect the Newspaper Register from time to time during the hours of business of the Supreme Court on payment of $1, for every such search and inspection, and any person may require a copy of any entry or an extract from the said hook to be certified by the Registrar under the seal of the Court on payment of $2 for every such copy.

21. Every copy of an entry in or extract from the News- paper Register as aforesaid purporting to be certified by the Registrar under the seal of the said Court shall be received as conclusive evidence of the contents of the said Register so far as the same appear in such copy or extract without proof of the signature thereto or of the seal of the Court affixed thereto and every such certified copy or extract shall in all proceedings civil or criminal be accepted as sufficient primâ facic evidence of all the matters and things thereby appearing unless and until the contrary thereof be shown.

1000.