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4 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.
Copy of declara 4. And be it enacted, that in any legal proceeding whatever, as well civil as cri
tion to be
evidence.
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 cr 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 .
Person ceasing to 5. Provided always, that any person who may have subscribed any such declara
be printer or
publisher to tion as is aforesaid, and who may subsequently cease to be the printer or publisher of
make declaration
thereof.
the periodical work mentioned in such declaration, may appear before such Chief
Magistrate as aforesaid, and make and subscribe in duplicate the following declaration .
" I A. B. declare that I have ceased to be the printer (or publisher, or printer
"and publisher) of the periodical work entitled
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" 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.
Copy of such 6. And be it enacted, that in all trials in which a copy attested as is aforesaid of
declaration to be
admitted as the former declaration shall have been put in evidence, it shall be lawful to put in
evidence.
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.
Every book or 7. And be it enacted that every book or paper, printed after the passing and
paper to contain
name of printer
or publisher and publishing of this Ordinance, within the Colony of Hongkong, shall have printed on it
place of printing
or publication. at the end thereof the name of the printer and of the publisher, and the place of printing
and of publicatiou , 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 .
Declaration by 8. And be it enacted, that after the first day of April now next ensuing no person
the possessor of
any printing
press. shall within the Colony of Hongkong keep in his possession any press for the printing