Your ShelfYour Projects

Blame Somewhere

8%

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 23.

Read the full edition

Blame Somewhere.

By Editor

The following note we received from a subscriber in Iowa:—
"Mr Editor, I notice a charge against me for your paper. I never ordered your paper, neither do I know who did: if you know, collect your money of them. If I order a paper, I pay in advance: I hope you will get your money, but you must look to those that ordered it. I am not able to pay other people's debts. I have enough of my own."
MARTHA G. TROTTER.
We here have evidence of neglect from two sources:
1. If M. G. Trotter had done her duty we should not have been sending papers to her when they were not wanted. When a paper is not wanted it is certainly the duty of those receiving it, to notify the publisher of the fact, and it will be discontinued.
2. The person who ordered the paper as above should have informed her of the fact, and ascertained how it was received, and whether it was accomplishing good, and given information at this Office, and we should then have known how to act in the matter. For the benefit of the writer of the above note as well as all others, we subjoin the law of the United States, in regard to newspapers:
1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue sending them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the office to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them to be discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and their newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the offices, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud.
6. The U. S. Courts have repeatedly decided, that a Post Master neglecting to give seasonable notice as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a person to take from the office, a newspaper addressed to him, renders the Post Master liable to the publishers for the subscription price.