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(iv.) No race shall be run earlier than in the week which 

 includes the 25th of March, or later than in the week which 

 includes the 22nd of November. Exception. — If the week 

 including the 25th of March be the week next before Easter 

 Sunday, races may be run in the week next but one before 

 Easter Sunday. 



(v.) A meeting' shall be deemed to commence at ten in the 

 morning of the day for which the first race is advertised, and 

 to conclude at ten in the evening of the last day of the races. 



(vi.) The Stewards in case of urgent necessity may from 

 time to time put off any races from day to day until a Sunday 

 intervenes. 



Powers of Steivards. 



5. (i.) The Stewards of a meeting shall have full power to General 

 make all such arrangements for the conduct of the meeting as powers of 

 they think fit ; and to regulate and control the conduct of all stewards, 

 ofiicials, and of all jockeys, grooms and persons attendant on 

 horses ; and to determine all questions or disputes arising 

 between any persons at or in relation to anything done or 

 omitted in reference to racing, except only disputes or claims 

 relating to bets. 



(ii.) They shall have power to punish at their discretion 

 any official or jockey or other person subject to their control 

 with fine or with suspension from acting or riding at the same 

 meeting, and to report to the Stewards of the Jockey Club 

 any further punishment which they consider necessary. 



Provided that they shall not fine any person more than 

 50/. (unless they are Stewards of the Jockey Club, in which 

 case they may impose any fine not exceeding 100/.) 



(iii.) They shall exclude from the stands, enclosures, sad- 

 dling paddocks, weighing rooms, and other places under their 

 control, every person who has been warned off Newmarket 

 Heath, and every person ivhose name is in the Unpaid Forfeit 

 List, and which has been twice so published in the Racing Calen- 

 dar, also every jockey who has been suspended for corrujit 

 practices on the turf, so long as the sentence against such 

 person or jockey remains in force. They shall in like manner 

 exclude any person who has been declared by the Turf Club 

 in Ireland, or by the stewards of any recognised meeting in 

 any country, to have been guilty of any corrupt or fraudiilent 

 practice on the turf. They shall farther have power to exclude 

 at their discretion any person from all or any places under their 

 control. 



(iv.) If any case occur which is not, or which is alleged 

 not to be, provided for by these Eules, it shall be determined 

 by the Stewards in such manner as they think just, and they 

 shall report the case with their decision (and with their con- 

 sent to an appeal, if they give such consent) to the Stewards 

 of the Jockey Club for confirmation. 



