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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 * Tilting 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 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. 

 The Jockey Club afterwards sold the farm forming the centre 

 of the course, but stipulated with Mr. Salisbury Dunn, the 

 purchaser, that the running-track should be only farmed as 

 sheep walk. 



In 1808 were added the two plots of ground running 

 parallel with, and east of, the Ditch, crossing the Cambridge 

 Road, and bounded on the east side by a line bisecting the 

 Rowley Mile near the Bushes. The northern part of this 

 ground was purchased from Mr. Salisbury Dunn, the southern 

 from Mr. C. Pemberton, and the whole was vested in trust for 

 the Jockey Club. 



In 1819 tne purchase of 'The Flat* was completed by the 



