1890_PRINTING_REGULATION_ORDINANCE — Page 2

Copy of declara- tion to be evidence.

Person cessing to

be printer or publisher to

make declaration

thereof,

Copy of such declaration to be admitted as evidence,

Every book or paper to contain name of printer or publisher and place of printing or publication.

Declaration by

the possessor of any printing

press.

ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1844.

Printing Regulation.

hereafter be established in Hongkong, and the officer, in charge of each original, shall allow any person to inspect that original, on payment of a fee of one dollar, and shall give to any person applying a copy of the said declaration, on payment of a fee of two dollars.

4. And be it enacted, that in any legal proceeding whatever, as well civil as cri- minal, the production of a copy of such a declaration as is aforesaid, attested by the seal of such Magistrate or Court, as are empowered by this Ordinance to have the custody of such declarations, shall be held (unless the contrary be proved) to be suffi- cient evidence, as against the person whose name shall be subscribed to such declaration, that the said person was printer or publisher or printer and publisher (according as the words of the said declaration may be) of every portion of every periodical work whereof the title shall correspond with the title of the periodical work mentioned in the said declaration.

5. Provided always, that any person who may have subscribed any such declara- tion as is aforesaid, and who may subsequently cease to be the printer or publisher of the periodical work mentioned in such declaration, may appear before such Chief Magistrate as aforesaid, and make and subscribe in duplicate the following declaration. "IA. B. declare that I have ceased to be the printer (or publisher, or printer "and publisher) of the periodical work entitled

"and each original of the latter declaration shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of the said Chief Magistrate, and one original of the said latter declaration shall be filed along with each original of the former declaration, and the officer in charge of each original of the latter declaration shall allow any person applying to inspect that original, on payment of a fee of one dollar, and shall give to any person applying a copy of the said latter declaration, attested by the seal of the Magistrate or Court having custody of the original, on payment of a fee of two dollars.

6. And be it enacted, that in all trials in which a copy attested as is aforesaid of the former declaration shall have been put in evidence, it shall be lawful to put in evidence a copy attested as is aforesaid of the latter declaration, and the former declar- ation shall not be taken to be evidence, that the declarant was, at any period subse- quent to the date of the latter declaration, printer or publisher of the periodical work therein mentioned.

77. And be it enacted that every book or paper, printed after the passing and publishing of this Ordinance, within the Colony of Hongkong, shall have printed on it at the end thereof the name of the printer and of the publisher, and the place of printing and of publication, and whoever shall print or publish any book or paper, otherwise than in conformity with this rule, shall on conviction be punished by fine, to an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

8. And be it enacted, that after the first day of April now next ensuing no person shall within the Colony of Hongkong keep in his possession any press for the printing