j^p, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. j^y 



Certain perfons, oppomted by government to receive tiie 

 4me t, for the purpofe of being lodged in one general na- 

 tional repofitory in the metropolis ; there to be pre-fei-ved 

 for tlie ufe of the public at all future times. 



To prevent evufion, lee the printer who fhall neg'eCi 

 to lodge a copy of any paper printed by him, witliin the 

 fpace of days after it is finiiTied, be fubjefled to the 

 following penalties, viz. one guinea for every copy of any 

 fuch primed paper, confifting of one fheet or under, (were 

 it only a fingle fentence, and whether of a public or private 

 nature) ; and if the performance conlllls of more t'.:an one 

 fticet, the penalty fliall be one guinea for each copy of every 

 Iheet fo printed. In cafe the_. printer cannot be difccvcred, 

 the publillier, or vender, or difiributer, or pofleflbr ot luch 

 paper, in any way, fhall be liable in payment of the penal- 

 ty, with i-ecourfe upon the printer if he can dilcover him.* 



The printer, on delivering this copy, fliall, for his (.wi\ 

 fecurity, be entitled to demand a receipt for it; fpecii) aig 

 the title of the paper, or otherwife fo defcribing it, a; ta 

 identify it fufEclently. He may a!fo, if he inclines, be 

 entitled to fee the fame entered into a reg.fler to be kept 

 by the receiver, who fhall be liable to the fame penalties, 

 if he ncgiefts to enter it in his regifter, as tlie printer would 

 have been, if he had neglected to deliver them. 



The books or papers, when thus obtained, to be trans- 

 mitted to London,-from every part of Britain, by feme lafe 

 land-conveyance, at fwch ftaied limes, and in fuch manner, 

 as thofe to whom this department fliall be alligned, Ihall be 

 j-leafed to order : And from places beyond fea, they fhall 

 be fcnt by the king's packet boats. 



N. B,'lt is fubmltted, whether it would not be necefTarj" 

 iu all cafes, cfpecially beyond feas, to order two copies at 



f The coUedorsof the {lamp-duties, which we fuppofe. 



* Perhaps it would be proper, alfo to require, that every printe^ 

 paper ihould beartht uanic of the printer, under a penalty of 

 pr every (hect,&t. 



