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for sale, or keep in his possession, or keep or 

 Buffer to be kept on his premises, or lead, drive, 

 or bring in or into any street, road, or public 

 place, any horse or beast affected with the said 

 disease, or any disease of the like nature, know- 

 ing such horse or beast to be so affected, shall be 

 liable to a fine not exceeding the sum of twenty 

 pounds (^100), or, in default of payment, to be 

 imprisoned for a term not exceeding one month.'* 



*' Any justice or justices may order any horse or 

 other beast affected with the said disease, together 

 with any troughs, litter, hay, straw, or other 

 article which he or they shall judge likely to 

 have been infected thereby, to be forthwith 

 destroyed, or otherwise disposed of in such man- 

 ner as he or they shall deem proper/^ 



" In 1784, a law was enacted by the French 

 government to prevent any one from keeping a 

 glandered horse, under a penalty of one hundred 

 dollars. Every animal suspected of glanders had 

 the words ^suspected animal' impressed wilh 

 green wax on his forehead ; and the penalty for 

 Belling such an aoimal, or offering him for sale, 

 was one hundred dollars. 



" Persons having suspected animals were to 

 report the same to the mayor, syndics of villages, 

 or other proper authorities, under a penalty of one 

 hundred dollars. Such horses were then inspected 

 by experienced veterinary surgeons, apj)ointed by 

 the mayor or other officer, and, if found glan- 

 dered, were destroyed. If only suspected, they 

 were marked in the forehead as before described." 



The foregoing is but a drop in the bucket, 



