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see that the flagman hoists the right flag (red or white for the left or right side 
of the card respectively, and both for undecided courses). 
THE SLIP-STEWARD, if there is one, regulates the proceedings of the dogs at 
the slips and sees that the next brace is ready. 
THE FIELD-STEWARDs regulate the beating and the general proceedings of 
the field. They should have one or two flagmen, with blue flags, who should 
always be in sight of the beaters, and should restrain the progress of the crowd 
beyond their own boundary. The field-stewards should also see to the beaters, 
with the assistance of the secretary, who is usually one of their number. 
THE RULES FOR THE GUIDANCE of meetings are of great importance to their 
success, and are now under the control of the National Coursing Club, which 
is elected by the various coursing clubs. They may be, and are, altered from 
time to time, and are now as follows :— 
Sect. Il. —THE NATIONAL CouRSING CLUB. CONSTITUTION AND ByE-Laws. 
(a.) The National Coursing Club shall be composed of members elected by the 
coursing clubs of the United Kingdom of more than one year’s standing, having 
not less than twenty-four members each, and of members elected as hereinafter 
provided. 
(0.) No coursing club shall elect more than two representatives ; and should 
any club fail to hold a coursing meeting for two consecutive seasons, that club 
shall cease to send representative members.* 
(c.) The National Coursing Club may elect as members of the club (the num- 
ber of members so elected not to exceed twenty-five) any well-known supporters 
of public coursing who have been proposed and seconded by two members of 
the National Coursing Club at either of the club meetings held in London or 
Liverpool. Members are elected by the National Coursing Club for five years, 
and are eligible for re-election. A month’s notice must be given to the secretary 
of the names of candidates for election to the National Coursing Club, with 
their addresses, and the numes of their proposers and seconders, before they can 
come up for ballot. The election shall be by ballot, in which one black ball in 
seven will exclude. If a quorum of members be not present, then the elec- 
tion shall stand over till the next meeting of the National Coursing Club. The 
secretary shall insert in the notice of business to be transacted at the ordinary 
meetings of the National Coursing Club the name of any candidate for election 
to the National Coursing Club, with his address, and the names of his proposer 
and seconder. 
(d.) The National Coursing Club shall annually, on the day of entry for the 
Waterloo Cup, elect two of its members as president and secretary. At all its 
meetings seven shall be a quorum. 
(e.) Ten members, elected by the coursing clubs, shall retire annually, in the 
regular rotation of their clubs; and the secretary shall, on or before the 1st of 
September in each year, give notice to the clubs whose turn it is to elect repre- 
sentatives. Returns of the various representatives, so elected, shall be sent to 
the secretary on or before the rst of January in each year. Vacancies in the 
representation of coursing clubs shall be filled up by those clubs respectively. 
* By a season is meant from September Ist to April Ist inclusive, 
