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Show Illegal Nowtpaper Reading Cntll the close of the Eighteenth century the public newspaper room came under the ban of the law. In September, lTSW. three proprietors of such reading rooms in London were prosecuted by the stamp office and each fined $25 for allowing the use of tieir newspapers to the public The stamp office derived a large income from the stamps which then had to be fixed on every copy of a newspaper. . and the Judge decided that to allow one paper to be read by several persons per-sons was circumventing the stamp act Manchester Guardian. |