(5) As newspapers serve only to excite the masses to subvert the present order of things and the editors thereof are composed mainly of the dregs of the literati, no good can be served by the continuance of these dangerous instruments against the Public pence. We hereby command our iccroys and Governors of provinces to suppress and confiscate all newspaper offices within their jurisdiction, to arrest the editors concerned, and to have them punished to the utmost extent of the law.
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