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Newspapers.
LcgJiorn, Clvita Vecchia, Naples, Malta, Syra, Athens, Smyrna,
Constantinople, and Alexandria.
Table of the Route of the Prench Steam Packets from Marseilles ; Time
occupied during the Voyage, and Time of Stopping at each Place,
from Marseilles to Alexandria.
NEWSPAPERS, AND SUPPLEMENTS TO NEWSPAPERS.
All Newspapers must be sent in covers, open at the sides, and no
words or commimication may be printed or written on such papers or
covers after the same shall have been published, other than the name
and address of the persons to whom they are sent ; nor anything in-
closed or concealed in either newspaper or cover. Newsvenders only
may print their names and addresses thereon. Newspapers may be
examined by the Officers of the Post Office ; and if there be any breach
of the above regulations, the packet is chargeable with treble the amount
of postage to which a letter of the same weight would have been liable.
Any person contravening the law, may, at the option of the Postmaster-
General, be prosecuted as for a misdemeanor.
Clause of the Act of 1st Victoria, cap. 34, sec. 32.
" And be it further enacted, that in all cases in which a question shall
arise whether a printed paper is entitled to the privileges of a Newspaper
or other publication hereby privileged, so far as respects the transmis-
sion thereof by the Post under the Post-Office Acts, the question shall

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