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Show To Delinquents. In several exchanges are printed the following "decisions" of the United States supreme court, which refer to delinquent and dishonest subscribers to periodicals: I 1. Subscribers who do not give express ex-press notice to the contrary are considered con-sidered as wishing to renew their sub scriptions, j 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance discon-tinuance of their periodicals the publisher pub-lisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the post-office post-office to which they are directed they are responsible until they have settled their bills and order them discontin- I ued. . . 4. If subscribers move to other places without, informing the publisher, publish-er, and the papers are sent to the former for-mer address, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing re-fusing to take papers from the office, or removing and ' leaving them uncalled un-called for. is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. If subscribers' pay in advance they are bound to give notice at the end of that time, if they do not . wish to continue taking .it:, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it, and the subscriber will be held responsible until an' express notice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. pub-lisher. ' The latest postal laws are such that newspaper publishers can arrest any one for fraud who takes a pap.er and refuses to pay. for it. Under this law the man who cllows his subscription to run along for some time unpaid, and then orders it discontinued, or orders the postmaster to mark it "refused." and have postal card sent notifying the publisher, leaves himself liable to arrest ar-rest and fine, the same as for theft. |