Head Officers of any of the principal Offices of State, or of
any Board of Revenue, &c., or who have published them, or shall
hereafter disperse any Paper so printed before the passing of
this Act, shall be indemnified from any Penalties incurred by
reason of any Offence against the recited Act; viz. the 39th of
George 3. c. 79.
42 George 3. c. 23.--Annual Indemnity Act, s. 9. “And whereas,
in an Act passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of His
present Majesty, intituled _An Act for the more effectual
Suppression of Societies established for seditious and
treasonable Purposes; and for better preventing treasonable
and seditious Practices_, certain Provisions are contained to
restrain the printing or publishing of any Papers or Books
whatsoever, which should be meant or intended to be published or
dispersed, without the Name and Place of Abode of the Printer
thereof being printed thereon, with a certain Penalty on the
Person printing, publishing, or dispersing, or assisting in
publishing or dispersing the same contrary to the said Act: And
whereas divers Papers being, or purporting to be Pleadings,
Rules, Orders, Process, or other Proceedings in Courts of Law
or Equity, or to be Parts of such Pleadings, Rules, Orders,
Process, or other Proceedings, or to be Copies of the same, or
of Parts thereof respectively, have, through Inadvertency and
Mistake, and on the Supposition that such Papers were not within
the Provisions of the said Act, been printed without the Name
and Place of Abode of the Person printing the same being printed
thereon as required by the said Act; be it further enacted, That
every Person who shall, before the passing of this Act, have
printed any Paper being, or purporting to be, any Pleading, Rule,
Order, or any Process, or other Proceeding of or in any Court of
Law or Equity, or to be any Part of such Pleading, Rule, Order,
Process, or other Proceeding, or to be a Copy of the same, or
of any Part thereof respectively, or shall have published or
dispersed, or shall have assisted in publishing or dispersing,
or shall hereafter publish or disperse, or assist in publishing
or dispersing any such Paper as aforesaid, which shall have
been printed before the passing of this Act, shall be, and is
hereby declared to be freed and discharged of and from all Suits,
Informations, Prosecutions, Judgements, Fines, Imprisonments,
Pains, and Penalties whatsoever, commenced, prosecuted, adjudged,
or incurred, or which may be commenced, prosecuted, adjudged,
or incurred, for or by reason of any Offence alledged to have
been committed against the said recited Act, by occasion of such
printing, publishing, or dispersing, or assisting in publishing
or dispersing any such Paper as aforesaid, as fully, freely, and
effectually, as if the same had been printed according to the
Provisions of the said Act.”
49 George 3. c. 69., intituled “An Act to indemnify Persons who
have inadvertently printed, published, or dispersed Papers or
Books without a full Description of the Place of Abode of the
Printers thereof, from Penalties incurred under an Act of the
Thirty-ninth Year of His Majesty’s Reign.”
s. 1. All Persons having printed Papers or Books with the Name of
the Street of their Abode (omitting the Name of the Town or City)
indemnified against Penalties under recited Act.
s. 2. Not to affect Convictions or Judgments had before the
passing of this Act.
51 George 3. c. 65., intituled “An Act to explain and amend an
Act, passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of His Majesty’s Reign,
intituled _An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Societies
established for seditious and treasonable Purposes, and for
better preventing treasonable and seditious Practices_; so far as
respects certain Penalties on Printers and Publishers.”
s. 1. “Whereas an Act was passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of
His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled _An Act for the more
effectual Suppression of Societies established for seditious and
treasonable Purposes, and for better preventing treasonable and
seditious Practices_: And whereas, in and by the Twenty-seventh
and Thirty-fifth Sections of the said Act, certain Provisions
were made, that every Person who should print any Paper or Book,
or publish or disperse, or assist in publishing or dispersing,
any printed Paper or Book, without the Name and Place of Abode of
the Printer being printed on such Paper or Book, in such Manner
as by the said Act is specified, should forfeit and pay the Sum
of Twenty Pounds for every Copy of such Paper so published or
dispersed by him; to be recovered before any Justice or Justices
of the Peace for the County, Stewartry, Riding, City, Town, or
Place in which such Penalty should be incurred: Add whereas there
is not in the said Act any Provision authorising such Justice or
Justices to mitigate the Penalties thereby incurred, or enabling
the Party to appeal from any Conviction by or Judgement of such
Justice or Justices: And whereas divers Books and Papers have
since been printed by several Persons, who, through Inadvertency
or Mistake, have neglected to comply with the Provisions of the
said Act, and such Persons have thereby become liable to be sued
and prosecuted for Penalties to a vast Amount, although such
Books and Papers were not of an evil or seditious Tendency:
And whereas it is expedient to limit the Amount of Penalties
imposed by the said Act; and to enable Magistrates to mitigate
the Penalties in such Cases as shall appear to them expedient;
and also to give the Party, who may be aggrieved by a Conviction
under such Act, a Power of appealing from the same; be it
therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
Authority of the same, That nothing in the Twenty-seventh Section
of the said Act contained shall extend to make any Person
or Persons offending against the same, liable to more than
Twenty-five Forfeitures or Penalties for printing or publishing
or dispersing, or assisting in publishing or dispersing, any
Number of Copies of one and the same Paper or Book, contrary to
the said Section of the said Act.
s. 2. “And be it further enacted, That if any Justice or
other Magistrate before whom any Person shall be convicted
of any Offence or Offences against the Provisions of the
before-mentioned Act shall see Cause to mitigate such Penalty
or Penalties, it shall be lawful for such Justice or other
Magistrate to mitigate or lessen the same to any Sum not less
than Five Pounds, over and above all reasonable Costs and Charges
expended or incurred in the Prosecution.
s. 3. “And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the Provisions
contained in the said Act may not be considered as extending
to Notes and Post Bills of the Governor and Company of the
Bank of _England_, and to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes,
Bonds, and other Securities for Payment of Money, Bills of
Lading, Policies of Insurance, Letters of Attorney, Transfers
or Assignments of Public Stocks, Funds, and other Securities,
and to Dividend Warrants, Receipts for Money or Goods, Deeds or
other Instruments, Proceedings in the Courts of Law and Equity,
and other Inferior Courts, Warrants, Orders, and other Papers,
printed by the Authority of any Public Board or Public Officer
in the Execution of the Duties of their respective Offices,
many of which Securities, Instruments, Proceedings and other
Matters aforesaid, are usually wholly or in Part printed; be
it therefore hereby declared and enacted, That nothing in the
said recited Act or in this Act contained shall extend or be
construed to extend to require the Name and Residence of the
Printer to be printed upon any such Bank Note, Bank Post Bill,
Bill of Exchange, or Promissory Note, or upon any Bond or other
Security for Payment of Money, or upon any Bill of Lading, Policy
of Insurance, Letter of Attorney, Deed or Agreement, or upon any
Transfer or Assignment of any Public Stocks, Funds, or other
Securities, or upon any Transfer or Assignment of the Stocks of
any Public Corporation or Company, authorized or sanctioned by
Act of Parliament, or upon any Dividend Warrant of or for any
such Public or other Stocks, Funds, or Securities, or upon any
Receipt for Money or Goods, or upon any Proceeding in any Court
of Law or Equity, or in any Inferior Court, Warrant, Order, or
other Papers printed by the Authority of any Public Board or
Public Officer in the Execution of the Duties of their respective
Offices, notwithstanding the Whole or any Part of the said
several Securities, Instruments, Proceedings, Matters, and Things
aforesaid, shall have been or shall be printed, any Thing herein
or in the said recited Act contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding.
s. 4. “And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons
shall think himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by any
Conviction, Judgement, or Determination, of any Justice or
Justices, relating to any Matter or Thing in the before-mentioned
Act contained; then and in that Case he, she, or they may appeal
to the Justices of the Peace at the General Quarter Sessions
to be holden in and for the County, City, or Place, where such
Conviction, Judgement, or Determination shall have been made,
next after the Expiration of Twenty Days from the making thereof,
first giving Six Days Notice of such Appeal to the Person or
Persons prosecuting for such Penalty or Penalties; and the said
Justices shall hear and determine the said Appeal at such General
Quarter Sessions, or, if they think proper, adjourn the Hearing
thereof until the next General Quarter Sessions to be holden for
such County, Town, or Place; and the said Justices may, in like
Manner, if they see cause, mitigate any Penalty or Penalties, and
may order any Money to be returned which shall have been paid or
levied under any Conviction as aforesaid, and may also order and
award such Costs to be paid by either Party to the other, as they
shall think and judge reasonable.
s. 5. “And be it further enacted, that this Act shall take Effect
from the First Day of _March_ One thousand eight hundred and
eleven.”
2 Vict. c. 12. “An Act to amend an Act of the Thirty-ninth Year
of King _George_ the Third, for the more effectual Suppression of
Societies established for seditious and treasonable Purposes, and
for preventing treasonable and seditious Practices, and to put an
End to certain Proceedings now pending under the said Act.
s. 1. “Whereas in an Act passed in the Thirty-ninth Year of
the Reign of King _George_ the Third, intituled _An Act for
the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for
seditious and treasonable Purposes, and for the better preventing
treasonable and seditious Practices_, certain Provisions are
contained to restrain the printing or publishing of any Papers
or Books whatsoever which should be meant or intended to be
published or dispersed without the Name and Place of Abode of
the Printer thereof being printed thereon in the Manner in the
said Act specified: And whereas the said Provisions have given
Occasion to many vexatious Proceedings at the Instance of common
Informers, and it is expedient to discourage the same: Be it
therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
Authority of the same, That so much of the said Act as enacts
that every Person who, after the Expiration of Forty Days after
the passing of the said Act, shall print any Paper or Book
whatsoever which shall be meant or intended to be published or
dispersed, whether the same shall be sold or given away, shall
print upon the Front of every such Paper, if the same shall be
printed on one Side only, and upon the first and last leaves of
every Paper or Book which shall consist of more than One Leaf, in
legible Characters, his or her Name, and the Name of the City,
Town, Parish, or Place, and also the Name (if any) of the Square,
Street, Lane, Court, or Place, in which his or her Dwelling
House, or usual Place of Abode shall be, and that every Person
who shall omit so to print his Name and Place of Abode on every
such Paper or Book printed by him, and also every Person who
shall publish or disperse, or assist in publishing or dispersing,
either _gratis_ or for Money, any printed Paper or Book which
shall have been printed after the Expiration of Forty Days from
the passing of the said Act, and on which the Name and Place of
Abode of the Person printing the same shall not be printed as
aforesaid, shall for every Copy of such Paper so published or
dispersed by him, forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds, shall
be and the same is hereby repealed.
s. 2. “And be it enacted, That every Person who after the passing
of this Act shall print any Paper or Book whatsoever, which shall
be meant to be published or dispersed, and who shall not print
upon the Front of every such Paper, if the same shall be printed
on One Side only, or upon the first or last Leaf of every Paper
or Book which shall consist of more than One Leaf, in legible
Characters, his or her Name and usual Place of Abode or Business,
and every Person who shall publish or disperse, or assist in
publishing or dispersing, any printed Paper or Book on which the
Name and Place of Abode of the Person printing the same shall not
be printed as aforesaid, shall for every Copy of such Paper so
printed by him or her forfeit a Sum not more than Five Pounds:
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
to impose any Penalty upon any Person for printing any Paper
excepted out of the Operation of the said Act, either in the said
Act or by any Act made for the Amendment thereof.
s. 3. “And be it enacted, That in the Case of Books or Papers
printed at the University Press of _Oxford_, or the _Pitt_
Press of _Cambridge_, the Printer, instead of printing his
Name thereon, shall print the following Words: ‘Printed at the
University Press, _Oxford_,’ or ‘The _Pitt_ Press, _Cambridge_,’
as the Case may be.
s. 4. “Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall not
be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever to commence,
prosecute, enter, or file, or cause or procure to be commenced,
prosecuted, entered, or filed, any Action, Bill, Plaint, or
Information in any of Her Majesty’s Courts, or before any Justice
or Justices of the Peace, against any Person or Persons, for the
Recovery of any Fine, Penalty, or Forfeiture made or incurred,
or which may hereafter be incurred under the Provisions of this
Act, unless the same be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed
in the Name of Her Majesty’s Attorney General or Solicitor
General in that Part of _Great Britain_ called _England_, or
Her Majesty’s Advocate for _Scotland_ (as the Case may be
respectively); and if any Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information
shall be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed in the Name
or Names of any other Person or Persons than is or are in that
Behalf before mentioned, the same, and every Proceeding thereupon
had, are hereby declared and the same shall be null and void to
all Intents and Purposes.
s. 5. “And be it enacted, That immediately after the passing
of this Act it shall be lawful for any Person against whom any
original Writ, Suit, Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information shall
have been sued out, commenced, or prosecuted, on or before
the Day of the passing of this Act, for the Recovery of any
pecuniary Penalty or Penalties incurred under the said recited
Act, to apply to the Court in which such original Writ, Suit,
Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information shall have been sued out,
commenced, or prosecuted, if such Court shall be sitting, or, if
such Court shall not be sitting, to any Judge of either of the
superior Courts at _Westminster_, or to any Justice of the Peace
before whom any such Plaint or Information shall be pending,
or any Conviction shall have been had or obtained, or to any
other Justice of the Peace acting for the same County, Riding,
Division, City, Borough, or Place, as the Justice of the Peace
before whom such Plaint or Information shall be pending or such
Conviction shall have been had or obtained, for an Order that
such Writ, Suit, Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information shall be
discontinued, or such Conviction be quashed, upon Payment of
the Costs thereof out of Pocket incurred to the Time of such
Application being made, such Costs to be taxed according to the
Practice of such Court, or in case of any Proceeding before a
Justice, to be taxed and ascertained by such Justice; and every
such Court or Judge, or Justice of the Peace, as the Case may be,
is hereby authorized and required, upon such Application, and
Proof that sufficient Notice has been given to the Plaintiff or
Informer, or to his Attorney, of the Application, to make such
Order as aforesaid; and upon the making such Order, and Payment
or Tender of such Costs as aforesaid, such Writ, Suit, Action,
Bill, Plaint, or Information shall be forthwith discontinued,
or such Conviction shall be quashed, as the Case may be:
Provided always, that in all Cases in which any such Writ, Suit,
Action, Bill, Plaint, or Information shall have been sued out
or commenced subsequently to the Sixteenth Day of _April_ One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, it shall be lawful for
such Court, Judge, or Justice as aforesaid to make such Order for
discontinuing the same, or quashing any Conviction had thereon,
without Payment of any Costs, and in every such Case, on the
making of such Order, such Writ, Suit, Action, Bill, Plaint, or
Information shall be forthwith discontinued, or such Conviction
shall be forthwith quashed, as the Case may be: Provided always,
that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to enable
any Person to recover back any Money paid before the passing
of this Act, in pursuance of any Judgment or Conviction duly
obtained under the Provisions of the said recited Act.
s. 6. “And be it enacted, That the said Act, and all Acts made
for the Amendment thereof, except so far as herein repealed or
altered, shall be construed as One Act together with this Act.
s. 7. “And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or
repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of
Parliament.”
_Exemptions._--Articles exempted from penalty for not having the
Printer’s Name and Address.
By 39 Geo. 3. c. 79. s. 28.
Any Papers printed by the Authority and for the Use of either
House of Parliament.
s. 31. The Impressions of any Engraving.
The printing by Letter Press of the Name, or the Name and
Address, or Business or Profession of any Person, and the
Articles in which he deals.
Any Papers for the Sale of Estates or Goods by Auction, or
otherwise.
39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 95.--Act of Indemnity.
Any Papers printed under the Authority of Commissioners of Public
Boards, and printed before the passing of this Act.
41 Geo. 3. c. 80.--Act of Indemnity.
Any Papers printed under the Authority of the Head Officers
of any of the principal Offices of State, or of any Board of
Revenue, &c. and printed before the passing of this Act.
42 Geo. 3. c. 23.--Annual Act of Indemnity.
Any Paper being, or purporting to be, any Pleading, Rule, Order,
or any Process, or other Proceeding of or in any Court of Law
or Equity, or to be any Part of such Pleading, &c., or to be a
Copy of the same, or of any Part thereof, which shall have been
printed before the passing of this Act.
49 Geo. 3. c. 69.--Act of Indemnity.
51 Geo. 3. c. 65. s. 3.
Any Bank Note, Bank Post Bill, Bill of Exchange, or Promissory
Note;
Bond or other Security for Payment of Money;
Bill of Lading;
Policy of Insurance;
Letter of Attorney;
Deed or Agreement;
Transfer or Assignment of any Public Stocks, Funds, or other
Securities;
Transfer or Assignment of the Stocks of any Public Corporation or
Company, authorized or sanctioned by Act of Parliament;
Dividend Warrants of or for any such Public or other Stocks,
Funds, or Securities;
Receipt for Money or Goods;
Proceeding in any Court of Law or Equity, or in any Inferior
Court;
Warrant, Order, or other Papers printed by the Authority of any
Public Board or Public Officer in the Execution of the Duties of
their respective Offices;
2 Vict. c. 12. s. 4. All Informations and Actions for Penalties,
&c. to be filed, &c. in the Name of Her Majesty’s Attorney or
Solicitor General.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. _See_ DEBT.
INDENTURES.
5 Geo. 3. c. 46. s. 19. “And be it further declared and enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, That all printed Indentures, Covenants,
Articles, or Contracts, for binding Clerks or Apprentices in _Great
Britain_, after the said fifth Day of _July_, one thousand seven
hundred and sixty-five, shall have the following Notice or Memorandum
printed under the same; _videlicet_,
“‘The Indenture, Covenant, Article, or Contract, must bear Date
the Day it is executed; and what Money or other Thing is given
or contracted for with the Clerk or Apprentice, must be inserted
in Words at length; and the Duty paid to the Stamp Office, if in
_London_, or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, within one
Month after the Execution, and if in the Country, and out of the
said Bills of Mortality, within two Months, to a Distributor of
the Stamps, or his Substitute; otherwise the Indenture will be
void, the Master or Mistress forfeit fifty Pounds, and another
Penalty, and the Apprentice be disabled to follow his Trade, or
be made free.’
“And if any Printer, Stationer, or other Person or Persons, shall
sell, or cause to be sold, any such Indenture, Covenant, Article,
or Contract, without such Notice or Memorandum being printed
under the same; then, and in every such Case, such Printer,
Stationer, or other Person or Persons, shall, for every such
Offence, forfeit the Sum of ten Pounds.”
INDEX,
or Hand ☞ points out a remarkable passage, or something that requires
particular attention.--_Murray._
INDIA PAPER.
This paper, which comes to us from China, is decidedly superior to
any other paper for obtaining fine impressions from engravings. That
which is used as the linings of tea chests is equal in quality to
any, although some of it is coarse, and many persons object to the
colour; a thicker and whiter sort comes over as wrappers for silk;
both these sorts are injured by having been used as packages, but out
of them good pieces may be selected, sufficiently large for octavo
pages, and frequently for quarto. A perfect paper of a large size is
imported in chests of two thousand sheets each. A sheet measures four
feet three inches and one tenth in length, and two feet one inch and
one tenth in width. This paper varies very much in quality, so that
circumspection should be used in making a purchase.
All India paper contains particles of hard matter, like minute
portions of stone, small pieces of the hard stalks of some vegetable,
and lumps of the material from which it is made. Previously to its
being printed on, the whole of it ought to be carefully examined, and
these extraneous matters removed with a sharp knife, otherwise they
will injure the surface of the engraving.
There is a smooth side and a rough side in white India paper, called
by printers the right side and the wrong side: this India paper has
the appearance of having been formed on a smooth surface of metal
or stone, by being laid on with a brush, the rough side having the
semblance of paint applied by an unskilful hand, exhibiting all the
marks of the brush in irregular directions; the other side being flat
and smooth. The smooth side is always used for the impression.
In all cases the best way of damping India paper is to put it, in
separate pieces, into a heap of paper that is in a proper condition
for printing, where after lying a few minutes it will be sufficiently
damp for use. _See_ PAPER.
INK.
Printing Ink is a composition formed of two articles, namely, varnish
and colouring matter.