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XIV. Enacts that any person licensed to slaughter horses not 
be licensed as a horse-dealer at the same time. 
XV. Imposes penalty on conveying animals in such manner as 
causes unnecessary pain or suffering. 
XVI. Directs that owners of dog-carts register the same, and 
specify the number of dogs kept. 
XVII. The clerk of the peace to keep the register. 
XVIII. Directs owners of dog-carts to have their name and 
address painted on their vehicles. 
XIX. Imposes a penalty on over-loading vehicles drawn by 
dogs. 
XX. And be it enacted, That when and so often as any of the 
offences against the provisions of this Act shall happen, it shall and 
may be lawful for any constable upon his own view thereof, or upon 
the complaint and information of any other person who shall declare 
his or her name and place of abode to the said constable, to seize 
and secure by the authority of this Act any such offender, and 
forthwith, without any other authority or warrant, to convey such 
offender before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with by such 
justice for such offence according to law. 
XXI. Permits justices to hear complaints made under this Act 
within one month after offence committed. 
XXII. As to service of summons. 
XXIII. Warrant maybe issued without summons. 
XXIV. Justices may summons witnesses to appear. 
XXV. Offenders not paying penalty may be committed. 
XXVI. And it shall be lawful to detain the vehicle of any per¬ 
son taken into custody. 
XXVII. Relates to obstructing of constables. 
XXVIII. Directs that one moiety of the penalties shall go to 
the poor of the parish, and the other moiety to the person com¬ 
plaining or prosecuting. 
XXIX. Orders that proprietors of public vehicles shall produce 
their servants by whom the offences have been committed. 
*** The remaining sections of the Bill relate to matters of law. 
On Cod-liver Oil. 
By Jonathan Pereira, M.D ., F.R.S. 
[From the Pharmaceutical Journal.] 
The great and daily increasing consumption of cod-liver oil 
renders all inquiries relating to this therapeutical agent interesting 
alike to the physician and the pharmaceutist. I think, therefore, 
