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race shall give no authority to postpone any Sweepstakes or Match made 

 or advertised to be run on that day ; and in the event of the Club 

 postponing a regular Meeting, it shall give them no power to postpone 

 any Matches or Sweepstakes made to be run at that Meeting. 



Rule XII. All Sweepstakes and Matches advertised to be run on 

 the Course on any day of a regular meeting of the Club, shall be under 

 the cognizance and control of the Club, and no change of entries once 

 made shall be allowed after closing, unless by consent of all parties. 

 Sweepstakes and Matches made to be run at a particular meeting, with- 

 out the parties specifying the day, the Secretary must give ten days' 

 notice of what days they will be run during the meeting, in case he is 

 informed of it in time. And no Sweepstakes or Match shall be run on 

 the Course during a regular meeting without being first reported to the 

 Secretary, to bring it under the cognizance and control of the Club. 



Rule XIII. The age of horses shall be computed from the first day 

 of January next preceding their being foaled ; that is, a colt or filly 

 foaled on any day in the year 1841. will be considered one year old on 

 the first day of January, 1842. 



Rule XIV. No person shall start or enter a horse for any purse 

 offered by, or under the control of the Club, other than a Member of 

 the Club, and producing, if required, satisfoctory evidence or proof of 

 his horse's age ; nor shall any member start a horse if his entrance 

 money, subscription money, and all forfeits incurred on the Union Course, 

 are not paid before starting. Nor shall any person start a horse, during 

 a regular meeting of the Club, who is in arrears to any member of the 

 Club for a forfeit incurred on the Union Course. 



Rule XV. All entries of horses for a purse shall be made in writing 

 under seal, addressed to the Secretary of the Club, and deposited in a 

 box, kept for the purpose, at the usual place of meeting of the Club, 

 before five o'clock in the afternoon of the day precedino- the race for 

 which the entry is made. Each entry shall contain the entrance money, 

 and state the name, age, color, sex, and pedigree of the horse entered, 

 and describe the dress of the rider of such horse. After five o'clock of 

 the afternoon of the day preceding a Purse Race, no other or additional 

 entry shall be allowed to be made for that race, and no enti-y shall be 

 received or recorded, that does not contain the entrance money. The 

 entries so received, shall be drawn from the box by the Secretary, and 

 declared at five o'clock of the afternoon of the day preceding the day of 

 the race, in the presence of at least three Members of the Club, and the 

 horses so entered shall be entitled to the track in the order in which 

 their names are drawn; in Sweepstakes and Matches, the Judges shall 

 draw for the track at the stand. 



