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1962 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1886 .


Printers and Publishers.


Bond to be 14. Every person who shall print or publish or cause to be printed
given by
printer or or published any newspaper, shall prior to such printing or publishing
publisher
[No. 16 of enter into a bond before the Registrar, together with two sufficient sure
1860. 60 Geo.
III. c. 9. I.W. ties to the satisfaction of the Registrar, such printer or publisher or printer
4, c. 73,
repealed by and publisher in the sum of twelve hundred dollars and such sureties
32 and 33
V. c. 24.] jointly in a like sum , conditioned that such printer or publisher or printer
(£250.)
and publisher shall pay every fine or penalty as may at any time be im
posed upon or adjudged against him or any person acting for him in his

absence 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 ; and every person not covered by such
bond who shall print or publish or cause to be printed or published any
newspaper without having entered into such bond with such sureties as

aforesaid shall upon conviction for every such offence be liable to a
penalty not exceeding $ 100 together with the costs of conviction .

Attorney 15. Every bond so given as aforesaid may be sued upon in the name
General or
plaintiff to of the Attorney General of the Colony in cases of indictment or informa
sue upon
bonds. tion and of the plaintiff or plaintiffs in any action for libel in which
[S. 2, No. 16
of 1860. ] damages may be recovered .

New sureties 16. In every case in which any surety in any such bond as aforesaid
in certain
cases. shall have been required to pay and have paid the whole or any part of
[Ibid, s. 3. ]
the sum for which he shall have become surety ; or in case he shall be
come 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 until he shall have entered into a
new bond with sufficient sureties in the manner and to the amount afore

said ; and in case he shall print or publish any such newspaper without

having executed such new bond as aforesaid, he shall be liable on con
viction for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding $ 100 together
with the costs of conviction .

Withdrawal 17. If any surety as aforesaid shall be desirous of withdrawing from
of sureties.
[Ibid, s. 4. ] 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