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ACT XI.
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A.D. 1835.]
civil as criminal, the production of a copy of such a declaration as is afore-
said attested by the seal of some court empowered by this Act to have.the
custody of such declarations, shall be held (unless the contrary be proved)
to be sulRcient evidence as against the person whose name shall be sub-
scribed 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
declaration.
VI. Provided always, that any person who may have subscribed any
such declaration 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 any magistrate, 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
And each original of the latter declaration shall be authenticated by the
signature and seal of the magistrate before whom the said latter declara-
tion shall have been made, and one original of the said latter declaration
shall be hied along with each original of the former declaration ; and the
ofhcer 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 rupee,
and shall give to any person applying a copy of the said latter declaration,
attested by the seal of the court having custody of the original, on pay-
ment of a fee of two rupees; and 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 declaration shall not be taken to be
evidence that the declarant was, at any period subsequent to the date of
the latter declaration, printer or publisher of the periodical work therein
mentioned.
VII. And be it enacted, that every book or paper printed after the said
15th day of September, 1835, within the territories of the East-India
Company, shall have printed legibly on it 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 tine to an amount not
exceeding five thousand rupees, and by imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years.
VIII. And be it enacted, that after the said 15th day of September, 1835,
no person shall, within the territories of the East-India Company, keep
in his possession any press for the printing of books or papers, who shall
not have made and subscribed the following declaration before the magis-
trate of the jurisdiction wherein such press may be; and whoever shall
keep in his possession any such press, without making such a declaration,
shall, on conviction, be punished by fine to an amount not exceeding
five thousand rupees, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years.
Penalty.
made by a proprietor
of a press.
Penalty.
7
A.D. 1835.]
civil as criminal, the production of a copy of such a declaration as is afore-
said attested by the seal of some court empowered by this Act to have.the
custody of such declarations, shall be held (unless the contrary be proved)
to be sulRcient evidence as against the person whose name shall be sub-
scribed 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
declaration.
VI. Provided always, that any person who may have subscribed any
such declaration 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 any magistrate, 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
And each original of the latter declaration shall be authenticated by the
signature and seal of the magistrate before whom the said latter declara-
tion shall have been made, and one original of the said latter declaration
shall be hied along with each original of the former declaration ; and the
ofhcer 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 rupee,
and shall give to any person applying a copy of the said latter declaration,
attested by the seal of the court having custody of the original, on pay-
ment of a fee of two rupees; and 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 declaration shall not be taken to be
evidence that the declarant was, at any period subsequent to the date of
the latter declaration, printer or publisher of the periodical work therein
mentioned.
VII. And be it enacted, that every book or paper printed after the said
15th day of September, 1835, within the territories of the East-India
Company, shall have printed legibly on it 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 tine to an amount not
exceeding five thousand rupees, and by imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years.
VIII. And be it enacted, that after the said 15th day of September, 1835,
no person shall, within the territories of the East-India Company, keep
in his possession any press for the printing of books or papers, who shall
not have made and subscribed the following declaration before the magis-
trate of the jurisdiction wherein such press may be; and whoever shall
keep in his possession any such press, without making such a declaration,
shall, on conviction, be punished by fine to an amount not exceeding
five thousand rupees, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years.
Penalty.
made by a proprietor
of a press.
Penalty.