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investigated under Rule 41 of the Code of Rules of the National 

 Coursing Club, and when such complaints are found to have been 

 proved, to impose such penalty or penalties as may be authorized by 

 the Constitution, Bye-laws and Code of Rules of the National Coursing 

 Club upon the offenders. For the conduct of such investigations the 

 Standing Committee shall consist of not less than five Members, and if 

 any person shall feel himself aggrieved by the decision of the Standing 

 Committee, he may appeal against it to the Members of the Club at its 

 next meeting for the dispatch of business, held in Liverpool on the day 

 of entry for the Waterloo Cup. Notice of appeal must be given by the 

 person aggrieved to the Secretary within fifteen days of the date of 

 the decision of the Standing Committee. The Members of the Club 

 attending the Meeting shall re-hear the case, and may by a majority of 

 at least two-thirds of those present confirm or vary the decision of the 

 Standing Committee as well as any penalty imposed under it ; but f 

 less than two-thirds vote to confirm or vote to vary the decision, it shall 

 be deemed to be rescinded and annulled by the Club. Before any 

 complaint of discreditable conduct is investigated by the Standing 

 Committee, the Secretary shall give notice to the person implicated of 

 the time when, and place where, the Standing Committee will investi- 

 gate such complaint, and if he appears in pursuance of such notice, 

 shall give him an opportunity of being heard by himself and of calling 

 evidence in his defence. Any person appealing from a decision of the 

 Standing Committee shall have the same right of being heard by 

 himself and of calling evidence in his defence on such appeal ; but 

 neither before the Standing Committee, nor at the Meeting of the Club, 

 shall any person be represented by solicitor or counsel. The decision 

 of the Standing Committee is to be in force unless and until reversed 

 by the National Coursing Club. 



(?) Every decision of the National Coursing Club shall be final, and 

 the National Coursing Club may order that the expenses attending any 

 case or matter in dispute brought before it shall be borne by the 

 parties interested as the National Coursing Club may direct. 



(y) The Secretary shall place on record in the minutes of the 

 business of the National Coursing Club all complaints investigated by 

 the Standing Committee under Rule 41 of the Code of Rules, and their 

 decisions upon such complaints, and if no notice of appeal against any 

 decision of the Standing Committee be lodged with the Secretary 

 within fifteen days of its pronouncement, the Secretary, subject to the 

 direction of the Standing Committee, shall be empowered to publish it 

 in the Greyhound Stud Book, and in the newspapers. The same right 

 of publication, subject to the direction of the Standing Committee, 

 shall exist in regard to complaints heard on appeal by the Members of 



