be subject to such and the same duties of stamps, with such and the same allowances and discounts, as newspapers printed in Great Britain and Ireland respectively now are subject unto, under and by virtue of the said recited acts of parliament, and shall be printed, published, and distributed under and subject to all such and the like rules, regulations, restrictions, provisions, penalties, and forfeitures, as are contained in the said recited acts, or either of them, or in any other act or acts of parliament now in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, relating to newspapers printed, published, dispersed, or made public in the united kingdom; and the said recited acts of parliament, and all other acts of parliament now in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, relating to the printing, publishing, dispersing, or making public in Great Britain or Ireland respectively any newspapers, or containing any regulations relating thereto, and all the clauses, provisions, regulations, restrictions, penalties, and forfeitures therein respectively contained, and in force at the passing of this act, shall (except where the same may be altered by this act) be applied and put in force in relation to all such pamphlets and printed papers aforesaid, as fully and effectually as if all such clauses, provisions, regulations, restrictions, penalties, and forfeitures were respectively, severally, and separately re-enacted in and made part of this act; and the said recited acts, and all other such acts of parliament as aforesaid, and this act, shall, as to all the purposes No quantity of paper less one inches in length, and seventeen in of carrying this act into execution, be construed as one act. II. And be it further enacted, That no quanthan twenty tity of paper less than a quantity equal to twentyone inches in length and seventeen inches in breadth, to be breadth, in whatever way or form the same may be made, or may be divided into leaves, or in whatever way the same may be printed, shall be deemed or taken to be a sheet of paper within the meaning and for the purposes of this act. deemed a sheet. No cover or blank leaf to be deemed part of a pamphlet. Publications at intervals exceeding twenty-six days, to be published on III. And be it further enacted, That no cover or blank leaf, or any other leaf upon which any advertisement or other notice shall be printed, shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed or taken to be a part of any such pamphlet, paper, part, or number aforesaid. IV. And be it further enacted, That all pamphlets and papers containing any public news, intelligence, or occurrences, or any such remarks or the first day of observations as aforesaid, printed for sale, and lendar month, published periodically, or in parts or numbers, at or within two intervals exceeding twenty-six days between any every ca days before or after; two such pamphlets or papers, parts, or numbers, and which said pamphlets, papers, parts, or numbers respectively shall not exceed two sheets, or which shall be published for sale at a less price than sixpence, shall be first published on the first day of every calendar month, or within two days before or after that day, and at no other time; and that if any person or persons shall first pub lish or cause to be published any such pamphlet, Penalty 202 paper, part, or number aforesaid, on any other day or time, he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds. (1) printed on periodical in Publications; and penalty the same 201 V. And be it further enacted, That upon every The price and day of publipamphlet or paper containing any public news, cation to be intelligence, or occurrences, or any remarks or observations thereon, or upon any matter church or state, printed in any part of the united for omitting kingdom for sale, and published periodically, or in parts or numbers, at intervals not exceeding twenty-six days between the publication of any two such pamphlets or papers, parts or numbers, and upon every part or number thereof, shall be printed the full price at which every such pamphlet, paper, part, or number shall be published for sale, and also the day on which the same is first published; and if any person shall publish any such pamphlet, paper, part, or number without the said price and day being printed thereon, or if any person shall at any time within two months after the day of publication printed thereon as aforesaid, sell or expose to sale any such pamphlet, paper, part, or number, or any portion or part of such pamphlet, paper, part, or number, upon which the price so printed as aforesaid shall be sixpence, or above that sum, for a less price than the sum of sixpence, every such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds. (2) (1) See the form of conviction, sect. 20, post. с Not to extend to the allow distributors who buy to retail. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, ance made to That nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to subject any person publishing any pamphlet or paper, to any penalty for any allowance in price made by the person for whom and on whose behalf, and for whose profit, benefit, or advantage, the same shall have been first published, to any bookseller or distributor, or other person to whom the same shall be sold for the purpose of retailing the same. Pamphlets and papers stamp duties VII. And be it further enacted, That all pamphthus liable to lets and papers which are by this act declared to freed from all be subject to the stamp duties upon newspapers, regulations, &c. relating to shall be freed and discharged from all the stamp duties and regulations contained in any act of parliament relating to pamphlets. pamphlets. No persons to print or publish newspapers, &c. or pamphlets, without entering into recognizance, or giving bond for tion for libels. VIII. And be it further enacted, That no person, from and after thirty days after the passing of this act, shall print or publish for sale any newspaper, or any pamphlet or other paper containing any public news, intelligence, or occursecuring fines rences, or any remarks or observations thereon upon convic or upon any matter in church or state, which shall not exceed two sheets, or which shall be published for sale at a less price than sixpence, until he or she shall have entered into a recognizance before a baron of the Exchequer in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively, as the case may be, if such newspaper or pamphlet, or other paper aforesaid, shall be printed in London or Westminster, or in Edinburgh or Dublin, or shall have executed in the presence of and delivered to some justice of the peace for the county, city, or place where such newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper shall be printed, if printed elsewhere, a bond to his majesty, his heirs and successors, together with two or three sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the baron of the Exchequer taking such recognizance, or of the justice of the peace taking such bond, every person printing or publishing any such newspaper or pamphlet or paper aforesaid in the sum of three hundred pounds if such newspaper, pamphlet, or paper shall be printed in London or within twenty miles thereof, and in the sum of two hundred pounds if such newspaper, pamphlet, or paper shall be printed elsewhere in the united kingdom, and his or her sureties in a like sum in the whole, conditioned that such printer or publisher shall pay to his majesty, his heirs and successors, every such fine or penalty as may at any time be imposed upon or adjudged against him or her, by reason of any conviction for printing or publishing any blasphemous or seditious libel, at any time after the entering into such recognizance or executing such bond; and that every person who shall print or first publish any such newspaper, pamphlet, or other paper, without having entered into such recognizance, or executed and delivered such bond with such sureties as aforesaid, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty Penalty 201. pounds. (3) (3) See the form of the conviction, sect. 20, post. The |