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A few alterations have from time to time been made in the original 

 rules, and they now stand as printed in the following pages. At 

 the Spring Meeting of 1863 the present code was formally adopted, 

 and a select committee of three appointed to revise Mr. Th acker's 

 rules for the decision of courses. These gentlemen accordingly 

 proceeded to their task, and the result was that a simplified code 

 was drawn up by them, and passed at the following Summer Meet- 

 ing in London in 1863. It is useless to record all the doings of 

 the club at their several meetings since 1858, but their decisions 

 in cases submitted to them being of the nature of precedents, 

 should be preserved, and I have accordingly collected them as 

 follows : 



PRECEDENTS ESTABLISHED BY THE COURSING CLUB. 



June 4th, 1859. Case 1. In the Selby case, sent to the club at 

 the previous meeting, it was decided f that " Snowball " was only 

 entitled to take his third share of the money to be divided between 

 the three dogs left in ; he not being entitled to the benefit of the 

 bye till he had run it.' 



February 21s, 1860. Case 2. Captain Spencer brought before 

 the club a case for their consideration which had been referred to 

 him as one of the stewards of a meeting in the north. It appears 

 that ' Iron King ' had been bred by Mr. Brougham and given to a 

 Mr. Hudson, who, considering him of no value, transferred him to 

 Mr. Fisher. The latter ran him several times, paying all stakes 



