322 EMPLOYMENT OF THE DOG IN HUNTING, ETC. 
The National Coursing Club recommends that the following 
code of laws shall be adopted universally for the guidance both. 
of open and club meetings, clubs merely adding such special or 
local regulations as may be required to adapt the national code 
to their own peculiar use; in fact, it is generally used through- 
out the kingdom :— 
CODE OF RULES. 
A COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT should be formed in any case, who should 
meet and decide upon the election of the judge and slipper, the stakes to be run 
for, and their appointment, and the rules which shall guide the meeting. All 
disputed questions to be decided by vote, and the chairman, in case of an even 
number, to have the casting-vote. 
THE ELECTION OF JUDGE either to rest with the committee, in which case it 
should be published with the advertisements giving notice of the meeting, or 
else it should be vested in the general subscribers to the stakes, each of whom 
should have one vote. 
The secretary to draw up, with the approbation of the committee, a programme 
of the meeting, which should be advertised, and should specity— 
1st—The date of the meeting. 
2d—The names of the stakes. 
3d—The qualification for ditto. 
4th—The entries for ditto and the money added, if any. 
5th—The apportionment of ditto. 
6th—The expenses to be deducted. 
7th—To whom applications are to be made for entries. 
8th—The time and place of entry and drawing. 
gth—The rules to regulate the meeting. 
10th—The judge, if named, or, if not, the mode of election to be stated. 
11th—The names of the stewards or committee, or both. 
12th—The secretary’s signature. 
THE DRAw should be conducted on the following plan: first, the money for 
each stake should be paid to the secretary by the subscribers; secondly, after 
this is completed, small squares of paper, exactly like each other, should be 
handed round, and each subscriber should, either himself or by his deputy, 
write the name of his dog, with the pedigree, colour, and age, upon one of them; 
after which they are folded up. The secretary then collects these for each stake 
in succession, placing them at once in a hat, from which they should be drawn 
in regular order, and entered as they are drawn. Nothing can be more simple 
than this plan, and it does away with all necessity for numbered cards, &c., 
which are the source of constant confusion and mistakes. It also facilitates 
guarding, and prevents all hanging back to see what dogs are entered, which is 
not conducive to fair and large entries, 
; STEWARDS should be appointed by the subscribers present, according to 
aw I. 
THE DUTIES OF THE FLAG-STEWARD are to receive the fiat of the judge and 
