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3. Amendment of section 3 of the principal enactment
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Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for the expression “every person in any such case offending shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit for every such act done the sum of five hundred rupees for every day on which any such newspaper
Shall be printed or published,”, of the expression “ every person in any such case offending shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit for every such act done the sum of two thousand five hundred rupees for every day on which any such newspaper shall be printed or published,”