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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5018, 11 February 1885, Page 4

NOTICE. ANY person or persons found INJURING . the TELEGRAPH POSTS, WIRE J INSULATORS, or any portionß of the Telegraph Line, will bo Prosecuted in accordance with the following Clauses of "The Malicious Injuries to Property Act, 1867 " a — Clause XXXVll.—Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, brealt, throw down, destroy, injure, or remove any battery, machinery, wire, cable, post, or other matter or thing whatsoever, being part of or being used or employed in or about any Electric or Magnetic Telegraph, or in the working thereof, or shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or obstruct in any manner whatsoever the sendiDg, conveyance, or delivery of any communi. cation by any such Telegraph, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to.be imprisoned'for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard - labour: Provided that if it shall appear to any Jnstice,'on the examinatioaof any pereon charged with any pffence against this seotion, that it is no expedient to the ends of justice that the same should be prosecuted by indict* znent, the Justice may proceed summarily to hear and determine the same, and the Offender shall on conviction thereof, at the discretion of the Justice, either be committed to some public gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to HAED xaboub for any term not exceeding three montfts, or else shall forfeit and pay such earn of money not exceeding ten pounds to the Justice shall aoem meet. . ", ABKAMHKTAIj irrinfeinj;, in colors, grdd AJ as bronie in .* style hitherto imohimi ftbll OH-tIM.XbIBM At tli# IVIH|[4S«AS