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EXTRACTS FROM THE STATUTES. 
ACTS OIF 1 1869. CHAPTEE CCCXLIV. 
Sect. 1 . Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives 
of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills, or causes, or procures, to be so overdriven, 
overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessarv sustenance, 
cruelly beaten, mutilated, or cruelly killed, any animal; and whoever, having the charge or custody of any 
animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or unnecessarily fails to 
provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from the weather, shall, for every such offence, 
be punished by imprisonment in jail, not exceeding one year, or by fine, not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
Sect. 2. Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of any animal, who cruelly 
drives or works the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons the same, or who carries the same, or 
causes the same to be carried, in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman man¬ 
ner, or knowingly and wilfully authorizes or permits the same to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering, 
or cruelty of any kind, shall be punished for every such offence in the manner provided in section 1. 
Sect. 4. Any person found violating the laws in relation to cruelty to animals, may be arrested, and held 
without warrant, in the same manner as in case of persons found breaking the peace. 
Sect. 7. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, deputy-sheriffs, deputy State constables, constables and police- 
officers, to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this act which shall come to their notice or knowledge. 
Sect. 8. The several municipal and police courts and trial justices in this Commonwealth shall have full 
concurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court of all offences under this act, and to the full extent of the 
penalties therein specified. 
LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS, 
CHAPTER 304, ACTS OF 187 0. , 
See Synopsis, page S, of this Essay. 
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