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inafter provided; and any person bringing or attempting 
to bring any sheep, lambs, oxen, bulls, cows, calves, or other 
horned cattle into any such market, fair, or open or public 
place as aforesaid, knowing such sheep, lambs, or cattle to 
be infected with or labouring under either of such disorders 
as aforesaid shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay 
for each and every such offence a sum not exceeding £20/ 
iC And whereas in and by the said Act it was and is further 
enacted as follows,—that is to say :— 
“ ‘ If any person turn out, keep, or depasture any sheep or 
lambs infected with or labouring under the said disorder in 
or upon any forest, chase, wood, moor, marsh, heath, common, 
waste land, open field, roadside, or other undivided or unen¬ 
closed land, such person shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit 
and pay any sum not exceeding £20/ 
“ And whereas in and by the said Act it was and is further 
enacted (for the more effectually preventing the spreading of 
contagious or infectious diseases) as follows,—that is to say : 
“ ‘ It shall be lawful for the Lords and others of Her Ma¬ 
jesty’s Privy Council, or any two or more of them, from 
time to time to make such orders and regulations as to 
them may seem necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or 
regulating the removal to or from such parts or places as 
they may designate in such order or orders, of sheep, cattle, 
horses, swine, or other animals, or of meat, skins, hides, 
horns, hoofs, or other parts of any animals, or of hay, straw, 
fodder, or other articles likely to propagate infection ; and 
also for the purpose of purifying any yard, stable, outhouse, 
or other place, or any waggons, carts, carriages, or other 
vehicles; and also for the purpose of directing how any 
animals dying in a diseased state or any animals, parts of 
animals, or other things, seized under the provisions of this 
Act, are to be disposed of; and also for the purpose of 
causing notices to be given of the appearance of any disorder 
among sheep, cattle, or other animals, and to make any other 
orders or regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the 
provisions of this Act, and again to revoke, alter, or vary any 
such orders or regulations; and all provisions for any of the 
purposes aforesaid, in any such order or orders contained, 
shall have the like force and effect as if the same had been 
inserted in this Act; and all persons offending against the 
same shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay any sum 
not exceeding £20, or such smaller sum as the said Lords 
or others of Her Majesty’s Privy Council may in any case 
by such order direct/ 
“ And whereas a contagious or infectious disorder, known 
or described as the sheep pox, or variola ovina, now prevails 
