142 COURSING THE HARE 



THE NATIONAL COURSING CLUI5 

 Constitution and Bye-laws 



As revised and adopted Feb. 19, 1884, luitJi subsequent 

 Alterations and Amendments to March 12, 1895. 



{a) The National Coursing Club shall be composed of 

 members elected by the Coursing Clubs of the United 

 Kingdom of more than one year's standing, having not 

 less than twenty-four Members each, and of Members 

 elected as hereinafter provided. 



{b) No Coursing Club shall elect more than two re- 

 presentatives, the names and addresses of the representa- 

 tives so elected to be sent to the Secretary of the National 

 Coursing Club ; and should any club fail to hold a cours- 

 ing meeting for two consecutive seasons, that club shall 

 cease to send representative members. 



(t) The National Coursing Club may elect as members 

 of the Club (the number of Members so elected not to 

 exceed twenty-five) any well-known supporters of public 

 coursing who have been proposed and seconded by two 

 members of the National Coursing Club at either of the 

 club meetings held in London on the last Wednesday in 

 June, or in Liverpool on the day of entry for the Waterloo 

 Cup.^ Members are elected by the National Coursing 

 Club for five years, and are eligible for re-election. A 

 month's notice must be given to the Secretary of the 

 names of candidates for election to the National Coursing 

 Club, with their addresses, and the names of their pro- 

 posers and seconders, before they can come up for ballot. 

 The election shall be by ballot, in which one black ball 



" See Bye-law (/). 



