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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS PREVENTION BILL. 
save as to any offence committed against the provisions of the said 
recited acts, &c. 
II. If any person shall from and after the passing of this Act 
wantonly or cruelly beat, ill-treat, over-drive, abuse, or torture 
any animal, every such offender shall for every such offence forfeit 
and pay a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 
III. To use or employ any animal in drawing or assisting to 
draw any vehicle, or in carrying any person or any load, or in doing 
any work whatever, whilst such animal is, by reason of infirmity, 
disease, or injury, unfit to be so used or employed, or in doing any 
work whatever which is manifestly beyond the strength of such 
animal, shall be deemed to be a wanton and cruel abuse of such 
animal within the meaning of this Act: and if any person being 
the owner of any such animal shall use or employ, or cause, suffer, 
or permit any such animal to be used or employed in drawing or 
assisting to draw any vehicle, or in carrying any person or any 
load, or in doing any work whatever, while such animal is, by 
reason of infirmity, disease, or injury, unfit to be so used or em¬ 
ployed, or any work whatever which is manifestly beyond the 
strength of such animal, every person so offending shall be deemed 
to have wantonly and cruelly abused such animal within the mean¬ 
ing of this Act, and in all such cases every person who shall let 
for hire or lend any such animal for any such work shall be deemed 
to be the owner thereof within the meaning of this Act; and if 
such animal shall be used or employed in drawing or assisting to 
draw any hackney carriage, stage carriage, or other public vehicle 
of the like nature, the production of a copy of the license granted 
in respect of such hackney carriage, stage carriage, or other public 
vehicle, shall be demed sufficient evidence of the ownership of such 
animal within the meaning of this act, as against the person to 
whom or in whose name such license shall appear to have been 
granted; and if such animal shall be used or employed in drawing 
or assisting to draw any vehicle (not being of a public nature) 
upon which the name of any person shall appear as the owner or 
proprietor thereof, the person whose name shall so appear shall be 
deemed to be the owner of such animal within the meaning of this 
Act; unless such person shall prove to the satisfaction of the justice 
before whom the penalty is sought to be recovered that another 
person is the owner of such animal, and shall give to the said 
justice satisfactory information as to the name and place of resi¬ 
dence or usual resort of such owner. 
IV. Imposes penalty on persons keeping or using places for 
bull-baiting, dog-fighting, See. 
V. If any person shall, by wantonly or cruelly beating, ill- 
treating, over-driving, abusing or torturing any animal, do any 
