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by the Committee of the National Life-Boat Institu- 
tion, accompanied with a request that “ from the great 
importance of the subject,” we will give insertion to the 
whole. Want of space, however, alone precludes our com- 
pliance, anxious as we are to promote the objects of the 
Society, in giving publicity to its humane intentions, by pro- 
mulgating principles in consonance with sound physiology.] 
Parliamentary Intelligence. 
On the second of August, the following Act to continue 
certain Acts to prevent the spreading of contagious or 
infectious Diseases among Sheep, Cattle, and other Animals, 
was passed. 
Whereas an Act was passed in the Twelfth Year of the 
Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and seven, 
for preventing until the First Day of September One thou- 
sand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then 
Session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or in- 
fectious Diseases among Sheep, Cattle, and other Animals : 
And whereas the said Act was by sundry Acts continued 
until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-three, and until the End of the then Session of 
Parliament : And whereas by an Act passed in the Session 
of Parliament held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years 
of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two, the said 
first-recited Act was extended and further continued : And 
whereas by an Act passed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth 
Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred 
and one, the said first-recited Act was further continued and 
will remain in force until the End of the present Session of 
Parliament : And whereas it is expedient that the said first- 
recited Act, as the same is extended by the said second- 
recited Act, should be 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 assem- 
bled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows : 
I. The said recited Act passed in the Twelfth Year of 
the Reign of Her Majesty, as the same is extended by the 
said recited Act passed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth 
Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, shall continue and be in 
force until the First Day of August One thousand eight 
hundred and sixty-three, and to the End of the then next 
Session of Parliament. 
