278 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



which they shall appear. The Board of Censors 

 shall establish certain rules with regard to giving 

 names to horses, and require those rules to be 

 observed in the Register, so that all clashing and 

 confusion from duplication or approximations will 

 be avoided. When any disagreement arises be- 

 tween a party contributing a pedigree and the 

 compiler of the Register, it shall be referred to 

 the Board of Censors, and after a free hearing 

 and examination of the evidence on both sides, 

 the decision shall be so reported. This provision 

 shall apply to disagreements in recorded pedi- 

 grees as well as those offered for record. In 

 order to establish the truth and check fraud, the 

 Board of Censors may order any pedigree in- 

 serted in the Register in its true form, without 

 the application or wish of the owners ; provided, 

 however, that 90 days' notice shall be given. In 

 all contested cases the Board of Censors shall 

 keep a plain record of its proceedings and find- 

 ings, but all evidence substantiating them shall 

 be reduced to writing and placed in the office of 

 the Register." 



The rules were as follows : — 



" In order to define what constitutes a trotting-bred horse, 

 and to establish a BREED of trotters on a more intelligent 



