260 JAWS OF COURSING. 



APPENDIX. 



THE NEW LAWS OF COURSING, 



As Revised and Enlarged at a Meeting of Noblemen and Gentlemen, held at the 

 Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, June 1, 1839. 



I. Two stewards shall be appointed by the members at dinner each day, 

 to act in the field the following- day, and to preside at dinner. They shall 

 regulate the plan of beating the ground, under the sanction of the owner 

 or occupier of the soil. 



II. Three or five members, including the secretary for the time being, 

 shall form a Committee of Management, and shall name a person, for the 

 approbation of the members, to judge all courses all doubtful cases shall 

 be referred to them. 



III. All courses shall be from slips, by a brace of greyhounds only. 



IV. The time of putting the first brace of dogs in the slips shall be 

 declared at dinner on the day preceding. If a prize is to be run for, and 

 only one dog is ready, he shall run a by, and his owner shall receive for- 

 feit : should neither be ready, the course shall be run when the Committee 

 shall think fit. In a match, if only one dog be ready, his owner shall receive 

 forfeit ; if neither be present, the match shall be placed the last in the list. 



V. If any person shall enter a greyhound by a name different from that 

 in which he last appeared in public, without giving notice of such altera- 

 tion, he shall be disqualified from winning, and shall forfeit his match. 



VI. No greyhounds shall be entered as puppies unless born on or after 

 the 1st of January of the year preceding the day of running. 



VII. Any member, or other person, running a greyhound at the meet- 

 ing, having a dog at large which shall join in the course then running, 

 shall forfeit one sovereign ; and, if belonging to either of the parties 

 running, the course shall be decided against him. 



VIII. The judge ought to be in a position where he can see the dogs 

 leave the slips, and to decide by the colour of the dogs to a person ap- 

 pointed for that purpose : his decision shall be final. 



IX. If, in running for prizes, the judge shall be of opinion that the 

 course has not been of sufficient length to enable him to decide as to the 

 merits of the dogs, he shall inquire of the Committee whether he is to 

 decide the course or not ; if in the negative, the dogs shall be immediately 

 put again into the slips* 



X. The judge shall not answer any questions put to him regarding a 

 course, unless such questions are asked by the Committee. 



XI. If any member make any observation in the hearing of the judge 

 respecting a course, during the time of running, or before he shall have 

 delivered his judgment, he shall forfeit one sovereign to the fund ; and, if 



