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proper time ; cause the time to be kept accurately, both with respect to 

 the running, the intervals between heats, and report the former each 

 evening — with any incident that may occur — to the Secretary, for 

 insertion in the Journals. 



KuLE XIX. Gentlemen residents of the State shall not be considered 

 as entitled to any of the hospitalities of this Club, excepting young 

 gentlemen returning from their collegiate studies or travels for the first 

 year; annual visitors shall not be considered as strangers after the first 

 year. The Governor of the State and Suite, and Lieutenant-Governor, 

 the Judges of the State, Revolutionary Officers and Officers of the 

 Army and Navy, and all members of the Diplomatic Corps, shall be 

 entitled to invitations; also Officers of Citadel and Magazine Guard, 

 and such other persons as the Officers of the Club may direct. 



Rule XX. The Treasurer is to collect all notes due. He is to keep 

 an exact account of the Purses given by the Club, or by any other per- 

 son, and by whom won; the Treasurer to give bond to the President of 

 the Club with good security for $2,500, and to be allowed 2^ per cent, 

 upon all sums collected for the use of the Club, in addition to the privi- 

 leges of membership. 



Rule XXI. Any gentleman not a member of this Club, nor a citizen 

 of the State, desirous of entering a horse for either of the Purses to be 

 given by this Club, shall be at liberty to do so, on paying to the Steward 

 the sum of forty dollars for the first day, thirty dollars for the second 

 day, and twenty dollars for the third day, and an entrance of ten dollars 

 per mile for every other race run under the direction of the Club, pro- 

 vided such entrance be made in accordance with the 4th Rule. 



Rule XXII. No horse, mare, filly, colt, or gelding, shall be qualified 

 to start for the " Handicap Race," on Saturday of the Race week, unless 

 such horse, mare, colt, filly, or gelding shall have been run either for 

 the Citizens' Purse, the annual and Hutchinson Sweepstakes, for colts 

 and fillies 3 years old, or for one of the regular Jockey Club Purses, of 

 four, three, and two-mile heats. 



Rule XXIII. Whenever any gentleman shall wish to become a 

 member of this Club, his name shall be proposed by the Chairman, on 

 which he shall be balloted for, and should there not be more than four 

 black balls, he shall be duly admitted. All resignations shall be in 

 writing, and addressed to the Presiding Officer of the Club ; but as it is 

 highly important to the welfare of the Club that its funds for the suc- 

 ceeding year should be as distinctly ascertained as possible, no resigna- 

 tion shall be received or accepted, unless presented on or before the 

 Thursday of the Race week of each year, nor until all arrearages of the 

 resigning member, including those of the year, be discharged. 



