Show Illegal Newspaper Reading Until the close of the eighteenth century the public newspaper room came caine under the ban han of the law In September 1700 three I of such reading rooms In Lon London on were prosecuted h by iy th the stamp stump ollice and each fined 25 23 for allowing the I use of or their newspapers to the pub pub- tic lic The stamp ollIce derived 8 a l large rge Income from the stamps which i then had to be fixed on e every ery copy of cf ot a n newspaper and the Judge decided de dc ile- ile clUed that to allow one paper paper to be berend rend read by several persons persons was cir circumventing the stamp act Man Inn ManChester Chester Guardian |