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amount of the evil, states — “ 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 : 
“ 1. From and after the passing of this Act , any person 
exposing or bringing or attempting to expose or bring any 
horse, ox, bull, cow, calf, or other horned cattle, sheep, 
lamb, or other animal into any market, fair, or other open or 
public place where animals are commonly exposed for sale, 
knowing such horse, ox, bull, cow, calf, or other horned 
cattle, sheep, lamb, or other animal to be infected with or 
labouring under the disease called glanders, pleuro-pneu- 
monia, sheep-pox, or variola ovina, any or either of them, or 
any other contagious or infectious disorder; and any person 
turning out, keeping, or depasturing any horse, ox, bull, cow, 
calf, or other horned cattle, sheep, lamb, or other animal 
infected with or labouring under the said diseases, any or 
either of them, or any other contagious or infectious disorder, 
in or upon any forest, chase, wood, moor, marsh, heath, 
common, waste land, open field, road side, or other undivided 
or uninclosed land, shall, on conviction of any such offence, 
forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £20 ; and the said 
Acts respectively hereinbefore recited shall continue in 
force and be read and construed as if this Enactment were 
incorporated therein, and all the provisions of the said Acts 
respectively with respect to the penalties and forfeitures 
thereby imposed, and the recovery and application thereof, 
shall be applicable accordingly 
This Bill, after being read a second time, is “ referred to 
a select committee up stairs and the house orders “ that 
the committee have power to send for persons, papers, and 
records.” The committee meet and examine witnesses, pro- 
fessional and practical. The evidence shows throughout the 
necessity of something being done, even beyond what the 
Bill specifies ; but, instead of attempting further legislation, 
the committee report to the house, that — 
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