No. 178. 23rd April, 1862. CL. V. Short title of Act and declared to be applicable to this Act, and shall be observed an enforced in all actions, prosecutions or legal proceedings under this present Act in the same manner as if the same had been specially enacted. This Act shall be cited as "The St. Vincent Prohibitory Exportation Act, 1862." CL. I. Messuages, lands and CL. II. Upon the death, resignation or removal of the present or future Commissioners or any Lord High Admiral messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments vested in their Successors. CL. III. Description of Commissioners when parties to deeds No. 195. An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied by or for the Naval BE it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly of the Govern- From and after the purchase and conveyance, grant or demise thereof, all messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments which shall at any time or times hereafter be purchased, taken, held or occupied by the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, or by any person or persons by his or their order for the Naval Service of the said United Kingdom, or of any of the departments of or belonging to the said Naval Service, and all erections and buildings which shall then or may be thereafter erected or built thereon, with the rights, members, easements and appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, shall in like manner be and become and remain and continue vested in the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being and his or their Successors in the said Office, according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments, and the several estates and interests of and in the same respectively in trust as aforesaid. Upon the death, resignation or removal of the present Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or of any of them, or of any future such Commissioners, or of any Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, all such messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments respectively shall become vested in and be held by the succeeding Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid, as the case may be, and so in perpetual succession according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments and the several estates and interests of and in the same respectively in trust as aforesaid. In all deeds, conveyances, leases, contracts and other instruments touching any estate, property, matter or thing relating to the Naval Service of the said United Kingdom, or to any department under the cntrol of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High AdmiSignatures of any two ral aforesaid, or whereto they or any of them shall be parties, it shall be relating to property for Naval Service. Commissioners valid and effectual. sufficient to describe them generally by the style and title of "the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," without expressing their names, and all such deeds, conveyances, leases, contracts and other instruments wherein the said Commissioners shall be so described, and the execution or signature thereof by any two of them shall be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if they or any of them had been expressly named therein and had executed or signed the same. No. 195. 6th May, 1863. CL. IV. It shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, or any two or more of them, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid, to sell, exchange or in any manner dispose of or let or demise any of the messuages, lands, tene- Commissioners authorised to sell, ments and hereditaments respectively, which shall be vested in them exchange, let or under or by virtue of this Act, with their respective appurtenances, demise messuages, either by public auction or private contract, and in due form of Law to lands, tenements, &c. convey, surrender, assign or make over, or to grant or demise the same respectively as the case may require to any person or persons who shall be willing to purchase or take the same respectively, and also to do any other act, matter or thing in relation to any such messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments which they or he shall deem beneficial for the public service in relation thereto, or for the better management thereof, which might be done by any person or persons having a like interest in any such messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to bring, prosecute and maintain any action, suit or other proceeding at Law, or in equity, for recovering possession of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments by this Act vested in them or him as aforesaid, and to distrain or sue for any arrears of rent which shall have or shall become due for or in respect thereof under any demise from the said Commissioners or Lord High Admiral, or any person or persons on their or his behalf, or on behalf of Her Majesty, and also to bring, prosecute or maintain or to defend any other action or suit in respect of or in relation to the said messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any trespass or encroachment committed thereon, or damage or injury done thereto, and that in every such action or suit the said Commissioners shall be called "The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland," without naming them, and no such action or suit shall abate by the death, resignation or removal of such Commissioners, or any of them, or of such Lord High Admiral, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding, and the said Commissioners, or Lord High Admiral, shall be entitled to recover costs or and on behalf of Her Majesty where judgment shall be given for the Crown, and shall be liable to pay costs where judgment shall be given against the Crown in any such action, suit or other proceeding in like manner and subject to the same rules and provisions as though such action, suit or other proceeding had been had between subject and subject. CL. V. Commissioners may bring actions for of lands, &c., or for arrears of rent. recovery of possession Such actions not to abate by death or removal of such Commissioners. No. 196. An Act to provide for the Registration of Newspapers published in WHEREAS it is deemed necessary to provide for the Registration of all CL. I. That from and after the passing of this Act, no person shall print or No person to print or publish, or shall cause to be printed or published, in this Government of Saint publish a Newspaper No. 196. 6th June, 1863. until a declaration be made and delivered at the Registrar's ortice. Vincent any Newspaper before there shall be delivered to the Registrar of Deeds of the said Government, at the Registrar's Office, in the town of Kingstown a declaration in writing, containing the several matters and things hereinafter for that purpose specified, that is to say: every such declaration shall set forth the correct title of the Newspaper to which the same shall relate, and the true description of the House or Building wherein such Newspaper is or is intended to be printed, and also the House or Building wherein such Newspaper is or is intended to be published, by or for or on behalf of the proprietor thereof, and shall also set forth the true name, addition and place of abode of every person who is or is intended to be the printer, or to conduct the actual printing of such Newspaper, and of every person who is or is intended to be the Publisher thereof, and of every person who is or shall be a Proprietor of such Newspaper, and who shall be resident out of the said Government, and also of every such person resident in the said Government who shall be a Proprietor of the same, if the number of such last-mentioned persons (exclusive of the Printer and Publisher) shall not exceed two, and in case such number shall exceed two then of such two persons being such Proprietors resident in the said Government, the amount of whose respective proportional shares in the property, or in the profit or loss of such Newspaper shall not be less than the proportional share of any other Proprietor thereof resident in the said Government, exclusive of the Printer and Publisher; and also where the number of such Proprietors resident in the said Government shall exceed two, the amount of the proportional shares or interests of such several Proprietors, whose names shall be specified in such declaration, and every such declaration shall be made and signed by every person named therein as Printer or Publisher of the Newspaper to which such declaration shall relate, and by such of the said persons named therein as Proprietors as shall be resident within the said Government; and a declaration of the like import shall be inade, signed and delivered in like manner whenever and so often as any share, interest or property soever in any Newspaper named in any such declaration shall be assigned, transferred, divided or changed by act of the parties, or by operation of Law, so that the respective proportional shares or interests of the persons named in any such declaration as Proprietors of such Newspaper, or either of them, shall respectively become less than the proprotional share or interest of any other Proprietor thereof, exclusive of the Printer and Publisher; and also whenever and as often as any Printer, Publisher or Proprietor named in any such declaration, or the person conducting the actual printing of the Newspaper named in any such declaration, shall be changed or shall change his place of abode; and also whenever and so often as the title of the any such Newspaper, or the Printing Office, or the place of publication thereof, shall be changed, and also whenever in any case or on any occasion or for any purpose the Registrar shall require such declaration to be made, signed and delivered, and shall cause notice in writing for that purpose to be served upon any person, or to be left or posted at any place mentioned in the last preceding declaration, delivered as aforesaid, as being a Printer, Publisher or Proprietor of such Newspaper, or as being the place of printing or pub lishing any such Newspaper respectively, and every such declaration shall be made before the Registrar; and if any person shall knowingly and wilfully sign and make any such declaration in which shall be inserted or set forth the name, addition or place of abode of any person as a Proprietor, Publisher, Printer or conductor of the actual printing of any Newspaper to which such declaration shall relate who shall not be a Proprietor, Printer or Publisher thereof, or from which shall be omitted the name, addition or place of abode of any Proprietor, Publisher, Printer or Conductor of the actual printing of such Newspaper contrary to the true meaning of this Act, or in which any matter or thing by this Act required to be set forth shall be set forth otherwise than according to the truth, or from which any matter or thing required by this Act to be truly set forth shall be entirely omitted, every such offender being convicted thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. That if any person shall within this Government knowingly and wilfully print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, or either as a Proprietor or otherwise sell or deliver out any Newspaper relating to which such declaration as aforesaid, containing such matters and things as are required by this Act to be therein contained, shall not have been duly signed and made and delivered, when and so often as by this Act is required, or any other matter or thing required by this Act to be done or performe 1 shall not have been accordingly done or performed, every person in every such case offending shall forfeit for every such act done the sum of Ten Pounds for every day on which any such Newspaper shall be printed or published, sold or delivered out, before or until such declaration shall be signed and made and delivered, or before or until such other matter or thing shall be done or performed as by this Act is directed. That all such declarations as aforesaid shall be filed and kept in such manrer as the Governor shall direct for the safe custody thereof, and copies thereof certified to be true copies as by this Act is directed shall respectively be admitted in all trials and proceedings, Civil and Criminal, and upon every occasion whatsoever touching any Newspaper mentioned in any such declaration, or touching any publication, matter or thing contained in any such Newspaper as conclusive evidence of the truth of all such matters set forth in such declarations as are hereby required to be therein set forth, and of their continuance respectively in the same condition down to the time in question, against every person who shall have signed such declaration, unless it shall be proved that previous to such time such person became lunatic, or that previous to the publication in question on such trial such person did duly sign and make a declaration that such person had ceased to be a Printer, Publisher or Proprietor of such Newspaper, and did duly deliver the same to the said Registrar as aforesaid, or unless it shall be proved that previous to such occasion as aforesaid a new declaration of the same or a similar nature respectively, or such as may be required by law, was duly signed and made and delivered as aforesaid respecting the same Newspaper, in which the person sought to be affected on any such trial did not join, and the said Registrar shall upon application in writing made by any person requiring a copy, certified according to this Act, of any such declaration as aforesaid, in order that the same may be produced in any Civil or Criminal proceeding, deliver such certified copy, or caused the same to be delivered to the person applying for the same upon payment of the sum of Two Shillings and no more, aud in all proceedings and upon all occasions whatsoever a copy of any such declaration, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar, upon proof made that such certificate hath been signed with the handwriting of a person described in or by such certificate as such Registrar, and whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be Registrar, shall be received in evidence against any and every person named in such declaration as a person making or signing the same as sufficient proof of such declaration, and that the same was duly signed and made according to this Act, and of the contents thereof, and every such copy so produced and certified shall have the same effect for the purposes of evidence against any and every such person named therein as aforesaid to all intents whatsoever as if the original declaration of which the copy so produced and certified shall purport to be a copy had been produced in evidence and been proved to have been duly signed and made by the person appearing by such copy to have signed and made the same as aforesaid, and whenever a certified copy of any such declaration shall have been produced in evidence as aforesaid against any person having signed and made such declaration, and a Newspaper shall afterwards be produced in evidence entituled in the same manner as the Newspaper mentioned in such declaration is entituled, and wherein the name of the Printer and Publisher and the place of printing shall be the same as the name of the Printer and Publisher and the place of printing mentioned in such declaration, or shall purport to be the same, whether such title, name and place printed upon such new Newspaper shall be set forth in the same No. 198. 6th June, 1863. Penalty on un- CL. IV. Particulars to be form of words as is contained in the said declaration, or in any form of words varying therefrom, it shall not be necessary for the Plaintiff, Informant or Prosecutor in any action, prosecution or other proceeding to prove that the Newspaper to which such action, prosecution or other proceeding may relate was purchased of the Defendant, or at any House, Shop or Office belonging to or occupied by the Defendant or by his Servants or Workmen, or where he may usually carry on the business of printing or publishing such Newspaper, or where the same may be usually sold, and if any person other than the Registrar shall give any cortificate purporting to be such certificate as aforesaid, or shall presume to certify any of the matters or things by this Act directed to be certified by such Registrar, or which such Registrar is hereby empowered or entrusted to certify or if any such Registrar shall knowingly or wilfully falsely certify, under his hand that any such declaration as is required to be made before this Act was duly signed and made before him, the same not having been so signed and made or shall knowingly and wilfully falsely certify that any copy of any declaration is a true copy of the declaration of which the same is certified to be such copy, the same not being such true copy, every person offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten Pounds. That every sheet or piece of paper which shall be published as а printed on Newspapers Supplement to any Newspaper shall be printed with the same title and with supplements. date as the Newspaper to which it shall be or shall purport to be a Supplement with the addition of the words "Supplement to" prefixed to such title, and upon every such Newspaper there shall be printed in conspicuous characters some words clearly indicating that a Supplement is published therewith; and if any sheet or piece of paper shall be published as a Supplement to any Newspaper, such Supplement, and the Newspaper to which the same shall relate, not having printed thereon respectively the several particulars by this Act required to be printed thereon respectively, and in manner and form by this Act directed, the Publisher of such Newspaper shall, for every such sheet or piece of paper so published as a Supplement, and for every copy thereof, forfeit the sum of Five Pounds; and if any person shall sell, deliver out, or in any other manner publish any sheet or piece of paper which shall be, or shall purport to be, a Supplement to any Newspaper without at the same time selling or otherwise publishing and delivering therewith the Newspaper to which the same shall be or purport to be a Supplement, every such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Ten Pounds. Penalty for omission £5. Penalty for publishing Supplements without the Newspapers £10. CL. V. at the place of printing CL. VI. Titles of Newspapers to be entered in a Book. That in any Suit, Prosecution or Proceeding, Civil or Criminal, against any Printer, Publisher or Proprietor of any Newspaper service at the House or Place mentioned in any such declaration as aforesaid, as the House or Place at which such Newspaper is printed or published or intended so to be, of any notice or other matter required or directed by this Act to be given or left, or of any Summons, Subpoena, Rule, Order, Writ or Process of what nature soever, either to enforce an appearance or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be taken to be good and sufficient service thereof respectively upon and against every person named in such declaration as the Printer, Publisher or Proprietor of the Newspaper mentioned in such declaration. That the Registrar shall cause to be entered in a Registry and Book and names of Printers to be kept at the Registers Office in Kingstown the title of every Newspaper and also the names of the Printers and Publishers thereof, as the same appear in the declarations required by this Act to be made relating to such Newspapers respectively, and all persons shall have free liberty to search and inspect the said book from time to time during the hours of business at the said Office without payment of any fee or reward. CL. VIT. Name of printers and other particulars to be printed in Newspapers. That at the end of every Newspaper, and of any and every Supplement sheet or piece of paper, shall be printed the christian name and surname, addition and place of abode of the Printer and Publisher of the fame, and also a true description of the House or Building wherein the same is actually printed and published respectively, and the day of the week, month and year on which the same is published, and if any person |