§ Mr. Peter FreemanI beg to present a humble Petition protesting against the practice of vivisection on animals, with or without anaesthetics. This Petition is signed by 1,972 petitioners, and reads as follows:
Believing vivisection to be morally unjustifiable, scientifically useless, dangerous, and demoralising to the community, we earnestly pray this Honourable House to pass a Bill withdrawing the sanction of the law from this practice.To lie upon the Table.