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numerous precedents being against such a proceeding.' The 

 secretary merely asked for an opinion on this point, and the 

 question how far the stakes were affected was not entered into. 

 Subsequently the matter was amicably arranged by Mr. East 

 and Mr. Farnell. 



Case 5. Mr. K. Anderson of High Felling, Grateshead, applied 

 to the club to know if he was entitled to his entrance money back 

 for a stake which, after a postponement, it was agreed by fourteen 

 out of the sixteen nominators should be run off on a certain day, 

 regardless of the weather. Eesolved that, ( as the opinion of the 

 majority in all such cases is binding on the minority, his claim be 

 disallowed.' 



June 1st, 1861. Case 6. Mr. Smith, the secretary of the Sorner- 

 ville Aston Club, applied for the opinion of the National Club 

 whether Mr. Partridge, of Hanbury, near Birmingham, was liable 

 for a nomination to a stake run on February 18, 1860. It appeared 

 that Mr. Partridge applied by letter for a nomination on February 

 12, which Mr. Smith wrote him on the 14th he could have, as was 

 proved by the envelope of the letter, which bore the Evesham post- 

 mark of that date. Mr. Partridge declared that he did not receive 

 this letter till the 1 8th, in the afternoon ; but no corroborative 

 evidence was given of this delay, and the club therefore decided 

 6 that Mr. Partridge is liable for the nomination.' 



Case 7. Major Beresford asked for an opinion whether he was 

 liable for a nomination at the County Louth Champion Meeting 

 held on March 6 and 7, 1861, the amount of which was claimed by 

 the secretary, and deducted from the sum to which Major Beresford 



