The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-29
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.


Every number OF newspaper appearing monthly or al
shorter PERIOD must be sent. with the signature OF the
responsible editor. 10 the police.
All other printed matter whether published or not,
der twenty sheets. except visiting cards. &c, must be sent
twenty -four hours in advance to the police.
Every is forbidden TO circulate any printed sheet
which has not complied with these regulations.
No bill shall be pacarded with slight exceptions, such
az lost articles, auctions, &c)
No shall sell or distribute in the public streets wri
tngs engravngs. without having by him at the time
police license mentioning his name,
The publisher OF newspaper monthly magazine
give security to the amount of 5000 thaers (about
$345o American money! In smaller towns the security
10 less
The security must be deposited in cash
The reimbursement OF the security money cannot take
place till after the expiration of six months after the last
sheet OF The publication in question: and then only upon
the presentation OF certificate from the requisite author
ty that no judicial proceedings pending against the
said sheet
The security pays per cent interest
Purely scientific and commercial publications are
cepted from the above.
In case of judicial decision against newspaper the
security deposited shall be applied to the satisfaction OF
costs and damages.
The amount Of costs and damages thus Withdrawn from
the security deposited must without notice be replaced
within IA days.
Newspapers and publications only appear under
the OF responsible publisher in the full possession
of civil rights and residing within the judicial authority
OF Prussia.
Military persons in service are forbidden to publish or
edit newspaper pamphlet without the permission Of
their superior officers.
Money for the satisfaction of damages awarded in
Of msdemeanors Of the press shall be raised by
public subscriptions.
Every number of newspaper or pamphlet must bear
moi only the and residence Of the printer and pub
Usher, but the name OF responsible editor.
Every newspaper must publish in of the two next
numbers following its receipt the answer in recfcation
OF any fact 1t has published, if required by the magis
trate or private person attacked The answer must be
signed by the person attacked
Msdemeanors OF the press, punishable with more than
three years. imprisonment shall be tried before jury
When publication commits misdemeanor. it shall be
cenfscated, il the public attorney his organs think
proper shall be the duty of the organs of the State
attorney within twenty -four hours after the confscaton
TO lay the affair before him and shall be the duty OF the
latter, unless he Immediately cancel the confscaton
within twentyfour hours, 10 lay the affair before the
proper judicial authority, which must decide upon the
prosecution within eight days.
For the carrying out Of this law the "organ OF the
State attorney shall be considered to mean the police
authorities and other officers whose duty it is to seek
out crimes and misdemeanors
Every person shall be considered an accessory in mis-
deneanors crimes Of the press who. according gen.
era criminal principles appears punishable perpe-
traitor or participation.
All persons who take printed publication to sell
shall where not themselves punishable perpetrators
partcipators be subject 10 fine of 200 thaers for any
misdsmeanor and from SO to 500 thaers for any crime
for which said publication shall be condemned, when
either upon the judicial summons they do not name the
author publisher, when the author publisher
the time when they received the work, not within
the reach of the Prdssian judicial authorities
The praisr OF punishable publication. when not
himself punishable perpetrator partcipator, shall
for msdemeanor be subject to fine OF 100 thalers-
for crime TO fine OF 10 TO 200 halers.
The editor, in every of msdemeanor, is subject
to fine OF 500 thaers-of crime to fine of from so
900 thaers. The editor shall be exempted from
these obligations, although he may have been prevented,
by absence any other reason, from personal attention
the publication, anless responsible substitute appear
in his place.
Whoever sells eireuidtes publication after il has
been confscs,ed is liable fine of from 100 ha-
ers, imprisonment OF from week TO year II the
offence be repeated, the punishment shall be double.
These punishments Independent OF other punish
ments to which such publication may be liable.
Although the accused may be acquitted by the jury. the
Judge shall have the right TO destroy all the copies of the
publication Should the publication, engraving. what
it may be- be allowable in its chief contents then
the illegal parts alone shall be desiroyed and this de-
strucon shall reach all the copies yet in the possession
OF the author printer publisher bookseller or any copies
to be found in public places.
II any number OF foreign journal any foreign pub
LEGATION come within the applications OF the previous
provisions, the Minister OF the Interior is authorized i'm
medately TO forbid its further circulation.
Whoever violates such prohibition after it has been
duly proclaimed particularly communicated 10 him
whoever sells. exposes, crcalates it in the way oil
tradeshal be liable fine of from ten TO hundred
,halers, to imprisonment OF from fourteen days to
year.
The following paragraph is that which excites most
| attention.:
"All crimes of the press punishable with Imprisonment
for longer period than three years shall be tried before
| jury"
Thus all the large class Of prosecutions out OF ,hi,
category do not enjoy the benefit OF the jury; that it,
| pretty much all the offences of the press.
| Under this law the American and English newspapers
may any moment be prohibited, and their circulation
punished a misdemeanor
A jury however has to pronounce upon all offences
punishable with imprisonment for longer period than
three years This instnion of the jury is OF the
conquests of the revolution and although its organiza-
ton differs greatly from that OF the English and
American jury, il ia still valuable acquisition Once
year = list OF hundred persons is preparedin the
provinces by the government authorities, in Berlin by the
president, Of the police Thry-sx drawn from
these every month aud from these thrtysix standing
jury Of twelve is selected for the whole month The
growing power OF public opinion illustrated by The fact
that Notwithstanding the very cautious infusion Of the
popular element into this tribunal grsa, number OF po-
cal prosecutions instituted by the government, either
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