A BILL TO PREVENT GLANDERS. 
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A BILL TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE CONTAGIOUS 
OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CALLED GLANDERS. 
{Note . — The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted 
in Committee.) 
Whereas a disease known as Glanders prevails among 
Horses, which disease has in many instances been communi- 
cated to the human species by contagion or infection, and it 
is necessary to take measures to prevent such disease from 
spreading : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most 
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre- 
sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 
as follows : 
1. Any justice or justices in petty sessions, or any two 
justices out of petty sessions, within their respective juris- 
dictions, may hear and determine, either on the oath of one 
or more credible witness or witnesses or on the confession of 
the accused, all complaints made under the provisions of this 
act, and may make any order hereby authorised, either as to 
fine or imprisonment, or otherwise ; and all proceedings as 
to compelling the appearance of the accused or of any wit- 
ness, and as to the hearing and determination of such com- 
plaints, and as to the making and executing of such orders, 
shall be subject in all respects to the provisions with respect 
to summary proceedings contained in the i£ Petty Sessions 
Act, Ireland, 1851,” (when the case shall be heard in any 
petty sessions district,) and to the provisions of the acts re- 
lating to the divisional police offices (when the case shall be 
heard in the police district of' Dublin metropolis), so far as 
the said provisions shall be consistent with the special pro- 
visions of this Act. 
2. Any person who shall sell, expose for sale, or keep in 
his possession, or keep or suffer 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, knowing such horse or beast 
to be so affected, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding the 
sum of twenty pounds , or in default of payment to be im- 
prisoned for a term not exceeding one month . 
3. Such justice or justices as aforesaid may order any 
horse or other beast affected with the said disease, together 
with any troughs, litter, hay, straw, or other articles which 
