As the operation of savings by drawings is prohibited by law, it constitutes an offence punishable' by law to publish advertisements or issue other printed "matter encouraging the practice of savings with drawings. According to Section 2, Art, 269 of the Criminal Code, all persons operating savings with drawings, and all persons dealing in savings with drawings, or acting as brokers for the selling or buying of such bonds for tickets, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not exceed. Ing six months, and/or shall be fined an amount not exceeding $1,000.
"The Society continued io propagate by advertising in the press, but the newspapers, in view of the promulgation of the law, have retrained from accepting such advertisements. It is significant that the postal service is still available to the Society's correspondence, bonds,
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