\6S APPENDIX. 



INFANTRY POLO TOURNAMENT. 



BYE-LAWS. 

 [As amended by Meetings of loth February, 1895 ^^^ Sth February, 1896.] 



Liicknow, Sitk Feb?-uary, 1896. 



1. The Infantry Polo Tournament will beheld under the rules of the Indian 

 Polo Association. 



2. An annual meeting will be held during the week of the Tournament ; no 

 alteration shall be made in these Bye-Laws except at that meeting. 



Any proposition or alteration in Bye-Laws that it is intended to bring forward 

 should be sent to the Honorary Secretary twenty -four hours before the Meeting. 

 A representative from any Regiment subscribing to the current Tournament shall 

 have a vote ; no others entitled to vote. 



3. The Infantry Polo Tournament shall be open to a team from any Battalion 

 of British Infantry or any Regiment of Native Infantry. 



4. Each team shall be composed of four Officers belonging to the Battalion or 

 Regiment, who shall not be changed during the Meeting unless through any 

 accident, sickness, or unavoidable absence any of them are not able to play, in 

 which case the local Stewards shall have the power of allowing the team to be 

 made up by other Officers of the same Battalion or Regiment. Seconded Officers 

 shall not be allowed to play. 



5. The entrance fees shall be Rs. 120 per team, of which Rs. 100 shall be paid 

 to the winning team and Rs. 20 to a current account for defraying the inci- 

 dental expenses of the Tournament from year to year. Donations from teams not 

 competing shall be paid to the winning team. 



6. The first entries will close on the 30th October in each year. These entries 

 and the votes as to date and place of playing the Tournament to be sent, regis- 

 tered, together with the full entrance fee to the Honorary Secretary, Infantry Polo 

 Tournament, at the station where the Tournament was played the previous year. 

 Second entries can be made up to within a week of the date fixed for the 

 commencement of the Tournament. 



7. Only those Battalions or Regiments who enter, pay their full entrance fee 

 by 30th October, have a right to vote in deciding the date and the place where 

 the Tournament is to be held. This decision will be taken on the votes given 

 with the first entries, and an Honorary Secretary in the Station where the Tour- 

 nament is to be held shall at once be asked to act by the Honorary Secretary of 

 the Infantry Polo Tournament of the previous year. 



In the event of there being a tie between two stations voted for, the Tourna- 

 ment shall be held at that station at which it was not held the previous year. 



8. The Honorary Secretary for the year will as soon as possible assemble a 

 Committee of three who will decide the date on which the Tournament is to be 

 held, in accordance with Bye-Law 7. 



9. No pony shall play for two different teams during one Tournament ; they 

 must be bond fide and unconditional property of the Officers, Non-Commissioned 

 Officers or men of the Battalion or Regiment which the team represents. 



