HISTORY OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. 55 



time being, who should be entitled to the capital of the afore- 

 said society, according to their several shares. The money 

 for this purchase was borrowed from the Duke of Portland at 

 four per cent. 



As regards the action of the Jockey Club, the first resolution 

 on record is dated March 24, 1758. It relates to the 'weighing 

 in ' of jockeys. The proceedings of the Jockey Club, and their 

 mode of enacting laws up to 1771, are described in ' Tuting and 

 Falconer's Sporting Calendar ' for that year. 



Stewards were first regularly appointed and their powers 

 defined in 1770, but there is a casual mention in the 'Racing 

 Calendar' of stewards as far back as 1762. What their 

 functions were, or how they were appointed, does not appear. 



The Club never seems to have cared for or encouraged the 

 keeping of any voluminous records, and their archives are the 

 scantier from the unexplained discontinuance of entering their 

 proceedings in a minute book (with few exceptions) from 1794 

 to 1836 ; all important regulations passed in the meantime 

 were published in the Calendar as soon as made. Among the 

 transactions not published was the striking a member's name 

 off the list of the Jockey Club New Rooms and Coffee Room 

 in 1 8 10, the expulsion of a Member of the Coffee Room in 

 1812, and the exclusion of a bettor from the Coffee Room yard 

 in the same year, with a recommendation to Mr. Tattersall to 

 exclude him also from his betting-room. 



The Heath lands, now owned by the Jockey Club, have 

 been acquired piecemeal at various dates, and a short account 

 of these purchases may be acceptable to readers interested in 

 such research. 



Starting from the Cambridge Road, at the commencement 

 of the Beacon Course, the Jockey Club bought from Mr. Allix 

 the whole of the land composing the Round Course on the 

 Cambridge side of the Ditch, with the exception of the first 

 few hundred yards of Beacon Course, which by the Swaffham 

 and Bulbeck Enclosure Act of 1798, and by that of Swaffham 

 Prior paddock in 1805, were reserved for the purposes of racing. 



