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for each Judge if called upon to do so by any of the subscribers. 

 A fortnight's notice shall also be given of the day of voting, which 

 shall be duly announced in the public papers. When a Judge, 

 from ill-health, or any other unexpected cause, is prevented from 

 attending a meeting, or during a meeting finishing it, the Stewards 

 of the meeting shall have the power of deciding what is to be done. 



3. POSTPONEMENT OF MEETING. If a meeting appointed to take 

 place upon a certain day be interfered with by weather which 

 in the opinion of the Stewards is unfit for coursing, the Committee 

 shall have power to postpone it, but not beyond the week. If, 

 through a continuance of bad weather, the meeting be void, the 

 subscribers shall be liable for their quota of expenses. This rule 

 not to apply to produce meetings, which must take place as soon 

 as the weather will permit. 



4. TAKING DOGS TO SLIPS. Immediately before the greyhounds 

 are drawn at any open meeting, the place and time of putting the 

 first brace of dogs into the slips on the following morning shall 

 be declared, and the owner of any dog which shall not be ready 

 to be put into slips at such appointed time and place, or in 

 proper rotation afterwards, shall be fined l. ; if not ready within 

 ten minutes from such time, the absent greyhound shall be 

 adjudged to have lost its course, and the opponent shall run 

 a bye. If both dogs be absent at the expiration of ten minutes, 

 the Stewards shall have power to disqualify both dogs, or to fine 

 their owners any sum not exceeding 51. each. No dog to be put 

 into the slips for a deciding course until thirty minutes after its 

 previous course, without the consent of its owner. 



