Newspapers. (Ch. 30. No. 8.

(2) I-very person who knowingly and wilfully prints
or publishes or causes to be printed or published, any
newspaper or supplement thereto, whereon the several
particulars aforesaid are not set forth, or are falsely set
forth, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.

14. (1) The printer or publisher of every newspaper in the
Colony shall, within six days after cach publication of the
newspaper, deliver, or cause to be delivered, at the office
of the Registrar General one copy of that newspaper free of
cost, with the name and place of abode of the printer or
publisher thereof signed and written thereon by his proper
hand and in his accustomed manner of signing, or by some
person appointed and authorised by him for that purpose,
of whose appointment and authority notice in writing
signed by the printer or publisher has been delivered at the
office of the Registrar General.

(2) Every printer or publisher of a newspaper who
fails or neglects to deliver or cause to be delivered, in
manner hereinbefore directed, a copy signed as aforesaid
shall be liable to a tine of fifty dollars for every such failure
or neglect to deliver.

15. (1) The proprietor and publisher of every newspaper
shall file or cause to be filed in the month of January in every
year with the Registrar General a return of the following
particulars —

(a) the title of the newspaper;

(b) the names of all the proprictors of the newspaper
with their respective occupations, places of business, if
any, places of abode; and

(c) the yearly circulation for the previous calendar
year ending on the 31st of December.

(2) Every proprictor and publisher failing to file
such return as aforesaid shall be Hable to a fine of one
hundred dollars.

16. The Registrar General shall cause to be entered in a
book kept for that purpose in his office, the title of every
newspaper registered at his office and also the names of
the proprietors, printers and publishers thereof, as they

 

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lalse par-
ticulars.

Delivery of
signed copies
of news-
papers.

Penalty.

Annual
returns of
particulars
of news-
papers.

Registration
of titles of
newspapcrs
and names of
proprietors,
printers and
publishers.