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TELEGRAPH ACT 1878 - SECT 9

Penalty for obstruction.

9. Where any undertakers, body, or person or their agents obstruct the [Post
Office] or [its] agents in placing, maintaining, altering, examining, or
repairing any telegraphic line in pursuance of this Act, or of any consent
given in pursuance of this Act, or in supervising or directing any alteration
in any telegraphic line made by any undertakers or their agents in pursuance
of this Act, such undertakers, bodies, or persons and agents respectively
shall for every act of obstruction be liable to a fine not exceeding ten
pounds, or in case such obstruction continues, ten pounds for every day during
which the same continues.

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