Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-06 | Page 2 | Newspaper Laws

WSFAPER IJAWS A Important Rullnp 5fmlc tty Assistant As-sistant Attorney G < moi al TItoma Washington March Assistant At torneyGeneral Thomas of the post office department has made a Important tant ruling in regard to socalled newspaper news-paper laws Mr Thomas decides that a publisher who makes a demand for payment of subscription to his paper through the mails accompanying the demand with a threat of enforcing i by the use of these pretended laws may be prosecuted for attempting to obtain money under false pretenses provided he knows that these laws have no existence as laws or judicial decisions t The socalled laws referred tOM arc those often promulgated by some newspapers to the effect < hat subscriptions subscrip-tions to 8 paper cannot be stopped until un-til full payment of arrearage has been made and that the publisher may prosecute in criminal action a subscriber subscrib-er who refuses to take his paper from the office not having paid full arrearage arrear-age or a subscriber who takes a paper and refused to pay for I These rules the assistant attorneygeneral says have no existence under the law