PREVENTION OF SALE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 611 
the preamble and the enactment, which you may either adopt 
or reject as you may deem proper. 
Yours truly, 
Samuel Brown. 
Melton Mowbray ; Oct . Wth , 1853. 
16 & 17 Victoria, c. 62, 63< 
Cap. lxii. 
An Act to extend and continue an Act of the Twelfth year 
of Her present Majesty, to prevent the spread of con- 
tagious or infectious disorders among Sheep, Cattle, and 
other Animals. [14 th August, 1852. 
Whereas an Act was passed in the Twelfth year of the 
reign of Her present Majesty, (chapter one hundred and 
seven), for preventing, until the first day of September, one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the end of the then 
Session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infec- 
tious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals. And 
whereas the said Act has by sundry Acts been continued 
until the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-three, and, if Parliament be then sitting, then fur- 
ther until the end of the then Session of Parliament. And 
whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be extended 
and further continued : 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 
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the 
same, as follows : 
i. Any person bringing, or attempting to bring for sale, 
any horse or other animal into any market, fair, or other 
open or public place where animals are commonly exposed 
for sale, knowing such horse or other animal to be infected 
with, or labouring under the disease called Glanders, and any 
person turning out, keeping, or depasturing any horse or 
other animal infected with, or labouring under any such dis- 
ease, in or upon any forest, chase, wood, moor, marsh, heath, 
common, waste land, open field, roadside, or other undivided 
or unenclosed land, shall, on conviction of any such offence, 
forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds ; and 
the said Act shall be read and construed as if this enactment 
were incorporated therein, and all the provisions of the said 
Act with respect to penalties or forfeitures thereby imposed, 
and the recovery and application thereof, shall be applicable 
accordingly. 
