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point annually five skilful and trusty men who 

 shall have charge of all questions relating to pedi- 

 grees, and be designated as the Board of Censors. 

 The supervisory control of pedigrees in Wallace's 

 American Trotting Register, having been ten- 

 dered to this association, the same is accepted, 

 and the said Register is hereby declared to be 

 the official record of pedigrees — subject always 

 to such corrections and changes as the facts may 

 require. In assuming and exercising this control, 

 the Board of Censors on pedigrees provided for, 

 and to whom this duty is specially entrusted, will 

 be governed by the following regulations : — 



" Its duty shall be to examine all doubtful pedi- 

 grees brought to its notice in the first and second 

 volumes of the Trotting Register, and indicate 

 to the compiler all additions, erasures, and correc- 

 tions that should be made in said pedigrees, and 

 order them to be reinserted in the fifth volume 

 as corrected. Provided, that when the compiler 

 objects to anything, his reason therefor shall be 

 submitted in writing, and be fully considered 

 before the decision is made. It shall be the duty 

 of the Board of Censors to examine the third and 

 succeeding volumes of the Register before publi- 

 cation, and consider and determine the forms in 



