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so convicted shall afterwards commit the like offence it shall be lawful for such justices 
to cause such offender’s name, place of abode, and offence to be published, at the ex¬ 
pense of such offender, in such newspaper or in such other manner as to such justices 
shall seem desirable. 
A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] TO PROHIBIT THE SALE AND 
USE OF POISONED GRAIN OR SEED. 
Whereas it is expedient to prohibit the sale and use of poisoned grain, seed, or meal: be 
it 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. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “ The Poisoned Grain Prohibition Act, 
1863.” 
2. Every person who shall offer or expose for sale or sell any grain, seed, or meal which 
has been so steeped or dipped in poison, or with which any poison or any ingredient or 
preparation has been so mixed, as thereby to render the same poisonous, and calculated 
to destroy life, shall in either case for every such offence, upon summary conviction, as 
hereinafter provided, forfeit any sum not exceeding ten pounds. 
3. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully sow, cast, set, lay, put, or place, or 
cause to be sown, cast, set, laid, put, or placed, into, in, or upon any ground or other ex- 
*posed place or situation, any such grain, seed, or meal which has been so steeped or dipped 
in poison, or with which poison or any ingredient or preparation has been so mixed as 
thereby to render such grain, seed, or meal poisonous, and calculated to destroy life, shall, 
upon a summary conviction thereof as hereinafter provided, forfeit any sum not exceed¬ 
ing ten pounds. 
4. Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the offering or exposing for sale or selling or the 
use of any solution or infusion, or any material or ingredient for dressing, protecting, or 
preparing any grain or seed for bona fide use in agriculture only, or the sowing of such 
last-mentioned grain or seed so prepared. 
5. All penalties imposed by this Act may be recovered in England and Ireland before 
two justices of the peace, and in Scotland before two justices of the peace or the sheriff; 
and for that purpose in England and Scotland the provisions of the Act of the eleventh 
and twelfth years of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, and in Ireland, the “Petty 
Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851,” shall extend and apply to this Act, and to all proceedings 
in relation thereto ; and it shall not in any such proceedings be necessary to allege or 
prove the ground or other place where an offence is committed to be the property of or 
occupied by any person : provided always, that the convicting justices or sheriff may, if 
they or he shall think fit, award to the informer or prosecutor (not being a police con¬ 
stable or peace officer) in any such proceedings, any portion not exceeding one moiety of 
any penalty recovered under the aforesaid enactments : provided also, that every in¬ 
former or prosecutor, and every person who shall give evidence against any other person 
proceeded against under this Act, shall be freed and discharged from any such penalty 
which he may have incurred for or by reason of his having participated or aided in the 
commission of the offence with respect to which he shall so inform or prosecute or give 
evidence, provided the information against such other person has been laid, or such evi¬ 
dence has been given, before the laying of any information (if any) against such in¬ 
former, prosecutor, or witness for the recovery of any penalty he may have so incurred. 
A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] INTITULED AN ACT FOR THE 
MORE EFFECTUAL CONDENSATION OF MURIATIC ACID GAS IN AL¬ 
KALI WORKS. 
(.Brought from the Lords , April 30, 1863. Ordered to be printed, July 8, 1863.) 
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the better condensation of the muriatic acid 
gas evolved in alkali works : be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by 
