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An Act for restricting the vivisection of dumb animals —

Whereas by an act passed in the 2nd and 3rd years of his later Majesty King Wm. 4th c. 75 certain enactments were made for regulating the schools of anatomy in Grt. Britain and Ireland. And whereas there is reason to believe that in some of the sd. Schools and also in veterinary schools and in other places in Grt. Britain and Ireland the practice of dissecting dumb animals while alive is carried on, [?] it therefore enacted by and with &c. &c. that from and after the passing of this act no experiments by dissection shall be made on any dumb animals while alive for any purpose whatever by any persons except by those who are duly license to practice anatomy

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under the said recited act, or by those persons who shall obtain a license under the provisions of this act.

II And be it enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's principal secrty. Of state for the time being for the Home Department in that part of the United called Grt. Britain. And for the Chf: Secrty. for Ireland in that part of the United Kingdome called Ireland at any time or times after the passing of this act to grant a license to dissect dumb animals while alive to any member or fellow of any veterinary college or school or to any graduate of any veterinary college or to any professor or teacher in any veterinary college or application from such person for such purpose countersigned by 2 of Her Majesty's

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Justices of the peace for the country city or bor. or place wherein such person so making application lives.

III And be it enacted that in no school of anatomy licensed or to be licensed render the said recited act and in no veterinary college school or other place licensed as hereinbefore provided shall it be lawful to make any anatomical or other experiments by dissection of any dumb animals while alive whether for the purposes of science illustration or demonstration unless such animals shall have been first brought into a state of insensibility by the application to it of some painless method of producing insensibility.

And then only during the continuance of such

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Insensibility.

IV. And be it enacted that, no member of any or fellow of any college of physicians or surgeons, or any medical school, nor any graduate or licentiate in medicine, nor any person lawfully qualified to practice medicine in any part of the United Kingdom, nor any professor, teacher, or student of anatomy medicine or surgery having a license from Her Majesty's Principal Secrty of State, nor any member or fellow of any veterinary college or school or any graduate professor or teacher thereof in any veterinary college or school to be limited shall make or suffer any experiments by dissection to be made on any dumb animals while alive except under the conditions hereinbefore provided.

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V. And be it enacted that any person offending against the provisions of this act in Grt. Britain or Ireland shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being duly convicted thereof, shall be punished or by a fine not exceeding £50 at the discretion of the court before which he shall be tried. And any person offered by [illeg]

VI. And be it enacted that the several provisions clauses and enactments in the said act herein recited shall so far as the same are applicable to this