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affidavit * , One Hundred Pounds per Day . By the same clause every newsvender is rendered liable to the same penalty for selling or delivering out any such newspaper , although ignorant that the affidavits may not have been made in the form required by the act . Power is also given to the Commissioners of Stamps , to stop the issue of stamps until new affidavits have been made , whether necessary or not . In other words , the Commissioners are to be permitted to ruin any Paper they please , by insisting upon new forms of affidavits , with which , —from the absence of the proprietors , or other causes—it may be impossible suddenly to comply . ( Partly new . )
170 . —The affidavits to be evidence in an action at law ag-ainst the printers , proprietors , or publishers , until new affidavits have been delivered that the parties have ceased to be connected with the paper . 171 . —Service of legal process at the place of abode mentioned in the affidavit , to be deemed a legal service . Personal service being dispensed with . ( New . )
174 . —Every Newspaper printer , or publisher , in the United Kingdom , is required to send two copies of his Paper , signed with his own hand , within three days of the date of publication , to the Stamp Office in London , Edinburgh , or Dublin , and between the hours of 10 and 3 in the day . Publishers living in Cornwall or Northumberland , may petition for leave to send copies to a distributor of stamps within twenty or fifty miles , and may be refused at pleasure of Commissioners . —Every instance of neglect in forwarding copies within the appointed time , is to be visited with a penalty of One Hundred Pounds . The signed copies are to be evidence in a court of law for two years , against the parties .
175 . —Besides the written signature , and the printed names of the printers and publisher in the Newspaper ; it is also to contain a true description of the house or building in which the same is actually printed , and if that description differ in any respect from the description of the building in which the same was intended to be printed , as stated in the affidavit , for every such offence a penalty is inflicted of One Hundred Pounds .
It appears , therefore , that if a printer should be burnt out , break his machinery , or become bankrupt , a Newspaper proprietor may be subjected to a heavy penalty , for getting his Newspaper printed upon an emergency at another office . 176 . — No printer can purchase stamps of a vendor of stamps , without first giving him a certificate that he ( the purchaser ) has fulfilled all the bonds and engagements m quired by the act , and which certificate must be signed by the Commissioners . ( New )
A vendor selling stumps to persons disqualified , will be fined Fifty Pounds for every offence , and the onus is to lie with the accused person to prove that he did not sell the staj /}])^ , * any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding . ' ( New . ) 177 . — Persons concerned in printing and publishing unstamped newspapers , shall , upon a bill being filed against them , be compelled * to make discovery of their own guilt , and shall all be equally liable for the unpaid duty .
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The New Gagging Bill 373
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/15/
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