324 EMPLOYMENT OF THE DOG IN HUNTING, ETC. 
(f.) Coursing clubs desirous of joining the National Coursing Club must send 
evidence of their qualification to the secretary. All clubs having joined must 
contribute their guota towards the expenses, aud any club failing to do so will 
be disqualified from returning members to the National Coursing Club. At the 
Summer Meeting, in each year, a statement of expenses shall be submitted to 
the secretary, and the contribution required from each club shall be fixed. 
(g.) Every coursing meeting shall, unless the contrary be declared by the 
programme of an open meeting or by club rules, be subject to all the rules and 
regulations of the National Coursing Club. Every question or matter in dispute 
connected, with coursing can be brought before the National Coursing Club for 
its decision. 
(h.) The National Coursing Club may, if it thinks fit, refer the examination 
of any case brought before the club to a committee consisting of not less than 
three members. Every such committee shall make a written report to the secre- 
tary, to be-laid before the National Coursing Club for its approval. 
(i.) Every decision of the National Coursing Club shall be final, unless either 
party within six months shall apply for a re-hearing, on the ground that evidence 
will be adduced which was not procurable at the previous hearing : and the 
National Coursing Club may order that the expenses attending any case or 
matter in dispute brought before it shall be borne by the parties interested as 
the National Coursing Club may direct. 
(j.) The secretary shall place on record in the minutes of the business of the 
National Coursing Club, and shall send to the keeper of the Stud-Book, and 
make public, every case brought before the National Coursing Club, with the 
decision arrived at. 
(k.) Meetings for the despatch of business, for the revision or alteration of 
rules, and for the election of members shall be held in London jon the last 
Wednesday in June, and in Liverpool on the day of entry for the Waterloo Cup. 
The secretary, upon a requisition addressed to him in writing by any three 
stewards of a meeting held under the National Coursing Club rules, or by six 
public coursers, members of an established coursing club, may call a special 
meeting of the National Coursing Club at such time and place as the president 
may appoint. 
(Z.) All cases arising in Treland or Scotland, where evidence is required to be 
taken, shall be heard by the National Coursing Club at its meetings in Liverpool. 
(m.) A month’s notice must be given to the secretary of any business or pro- 
posed alteration of rules before it can be discussed at an ordinary meeting of 
the National Coursing Club; and at a special meeting nothing but the special 
business for which the meeting was called can be brought before it. 
Sect. IIJ.—CopvE or RULES oF THE NATIONAL CouRSING CLUB. 
1, THE SECRETARY AND STEWARDS.—For any proposed open meeting a com- 
mittee of not less than three shall be formed, who, with the secretary, shall settle 
preliminaries. The management of the meeting shall be entrusted to this com- 
mittce, in conjunction with stewards who shall be elected by the subscribers 
present on the first evening of a meeting. The stewards alone shall decide 
any disputed question, by a majority of those present, subject to an appeal to 
the National Coursing Club. The secretary, if honorary, shall be a member of 
