450 New Law relating to Periodical Publications. 
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. 
174.—Every printer, or publisher, in the United Kingdom, capable of being construed 
to come within the meaning of Clause 166 and schedule, 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 ia 
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 co- 
pies are to be evidence in a court of law for two years, against the parties. 
175.—Besides the written signature and printed names of the printers and publisher, 
it is also to contain a ¢rue description of the house or building in which the same is actu- 
ally 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. 
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 required 
by the Act, and which certificate must be signed by the Commissioners. 
A vendor selling stamps 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 stamps, 
‘any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.’ 
177,—Persons concerned 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. , 
178.—Any person having such paper in his possession shall be liable 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 such paper abroad, to be liable to a penalty of One Hun- 
dred Pounds for every 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. 
181.—Any person more than twenty-eight days in arrear of payment of advertisement 
duty shall be disqualified to receive stamped paper until the arrears are paid. 
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 advertise- 
ment 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 penal- 
ties. : 
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. 
By clause 239 every Justice of the Peace is required (no discretion being allowed) to 
grant upon the application of any Constable, Police Officer, or any Officer of Stamp Du- 
ties, a warrant to enter and search any house or place suspected to contain unstamped papers 
alleged to come within the meaning of Schedule A, or Persons concerned in them, or print- 
ing presses which may at any time have been employed in printing them. And 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. - 
‘By clause 241, Officers are permitted to break open doors and make forcible entry into 
priyate houses, shops, and offices, &c. - 
248.—A Justice of the Peace may convict upon the evidence of one credible witness. 
The accused may appeal to the Quarter Sessions, but the cause cannot be moved by writ 
of Certiorari or otherwise, into any superior court. 
249.—Any common informer, entitled to a pecuniary reward, in the event of conviction is 
to be admitted as a credible witness. ai) 
Also a convicted person may get absolved from his penalty, and even become himself 
entitled to a reward, if he procure the conyiction of any other offender. 
