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7 August 1810
Press

Provision for to one, partly the being the
Punishment of forgery of names

Ch. 4. Printers' and Publishers' Law.
§. 1. Text of the Law.

Responsibility of the Printers and Publishers in
respect of defamation in particular terms, defamation
in general terms, and vituperation.

Art. 1. To the In every sheet(1) of paper printed within the territory
of the State, the name and abode of the Printer shall be inserted.
(1) [Sheet] For the purpose of eluding the effect of this article
it might occurr to a printer to insert in the same sheet culpable
matter and matter not culpable: and in such sort that his name
remaining in connection with the non-culpable matter, the culpable
matter being declared from it may be disseminated without
his name or any
other name.
The Judge will be
upon his guard and
against such artifice.
☞ Alter the wording.

Art. 2. Whatsoever par matter is inserted in any such
printed paper the Printer shall to the purpose of satisfaction
and punishment in case of delinquency be responsible
for such every such portion excepted as shall
have been transmitted to him by some responsible author
or communicator, and in respect of which he shall
have conducted himself as underneath adult.

Art. 3. Where to any the printer of any newspaper or other periodical miscellany
or of any separate work, the name of the some person
concerned as author or communicator correspondent shall have
been transmitted, it will the printer is at liberty to not under any
insert it or not insert as he thinks fit. obligation of inserting it: nor of making it known, unless
and until called upon so to do in course of justice:
but for his own security, as below, it concerns him to keep preserve it.

Art. 4. Lest On a printer for the purpose of evading escaping from the
burthen of responsibility, a printer should fix upon some
imaginary or irresponsible person, the eventual responsibility must
and shall rest upon the printer himself: insomuch
that of the in case of delinquency, of the communicator,
escape from the hand of justice by withdrawing himself his person
or his property eludes the hand of justice whatsoever he would be subject to
either on the score either of satisfaction or of punishment, every part
which he shall have escaped from as above the printer shall be subjected to in his stead.

Identifier: | JB/118/415/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	5
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	415	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a4 / b2 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39469
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