298 EMPLOYMEXT OF THE DOG IN HUNTING, ETC. 



with several other influential noblemen and gentlemen who have 

 been added to it, and whose names have been made known. 



The Club is now kept up on the elective principle, the various 

 Coursing Clubs electing members in rotation, and eight retiring 

 every year. 



Two General Meetings of the Club shall be held in each year — 

 viz. one in London during the Epsom Race-week, and one at 

 liiverpool during the Waterloo Coursing Meeting — for the de- 

 spatch of business, and for the revision and alteration of rules ; 

 but the Secretary shall be authorised, upon a requisition addressed 

 to him in writing by any three of the secretary and stewards of 

 a meeting, or upon a remonstrance signed by six public coursers 

 who may happen to be present, to summon such special meetings 

 as may be necessary from time to time, at the earliest convenient 

 opportunity, for adjudication upon such questions as may be re- 

 ferred to the Club. 



The National Coursinff Club recommends that the followino- 

 code of laws shall be adopted universally for the guidance both 

 of open and club meetings, clubs merely adding such special or 

 local regulations as may be required to adapt the national code 

 to their own peculiar use ; in fact it is generally used through- 

 out the kingdom : — 



CODE OF RULES. 



1. Secretary and Stewards. — The Secretary of any proposed 

 open meeting shall associate with himself a Committee of not less 

 than three members, to settle preliminaries. The management of 



