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178 . Any person having an unstamped Paper in his possession shall beiable to a penalty of Twenty Pounds for every such paper , or to be imprisoned for a term of not less than one month , and not exceeding six months . 179 . —Every person sending an unstamped Newspaper abroad , to be liable to a penalty of One Hundred Pounds for every such offence . 180 . —A bill may be filed against any person , without distinction ,
who shall thereby be compelled to make any discovery in his power * of the printer , publisher , or proprietor of an unstamped Newspaper . ( New . ) 181 . — Any person more than twenty-eight days in arrears of payment of the advertisment duty shall thenceforth be disqualified to receive stamped paper , until the arrears are paid . ( New . ) 182 . — Every pamphlet , or literary work containing advertisements , must be entered within six , and in some cases within ten days at the Stamp Office , and the advertisement duty immediately paid under a penalty of twenty pounds for every offence . Every person
concerned in printing or publishing the Paper , is to be liable to the same penalties . ( The greater part of this clause new . ) 183 . — The printing press and types employed in printing an unstamped paper will be liable to be seized , without any other warrant than this act , whoever may claim to be the real proprietors of the property " ( New . )
WORSE IS YET BEHIND
By clause 239 every Justice of the Peace is required by the Act , ( no discretion being allowed ) to grant upon the application of any Constable , Police Officer , or any Officer of Stamp Duties , a warrant to enter and search any house or place suspected to contain unstamped
Newspapers , or Persons concerned in them , or printing presses which may at any time have been employed in printing unstamped Papers , ( New ) .
By the same clause , the Officers are empowered to seize not only those presses , but also all other presses and printing materials found in the same house , ( no matter to whom they belong ) all of which are to be forfeited to bis Majesty . ( New ) .
By clause , 241 , Officers are permitted to break open doors and make forcible entry into private houses , shops , and offices in pursuance of the same object . ( New ) .
248 . —A Justice of the Peace may convict upon the evidence of one credible witness . The accused may appeal to the Quarter Sessions , bat the cause cannot be moved by writ of Certiorari or otherwise , into any superior Court . 249 . —Any cornmoni nformcr , entitled to a pecuniary reward in the event of conviction is to be admitted a credible witness . ( This is entirely new ) . "
By the same clause it is proposed to be enacted , that a convicted person may get absolved from his penalty , and even become himself entitled to a reward , if he procure the conviction of any other offender . ( New ) . Reformrrs ! the above requires no comment .
• The lunacy of thia despotism is plain enqugh . —lut .
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S 80 The New Gagging Sill .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/16/
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