CODE OF RULES. 325 
committee and a steward ex officio. No steward shall have a right to vote in 
any case relating to his own dogs. The secretary shall declare, on or before the 
evening preceding the last day’s running, how the prizes are to be divided, 
and shall give a statement of expenses if called upon to do so by any six of the 
subscribers within fourteen days after the meeting. 
2. ELECTION OF JUDGE.—The judge may either be appointed by the secretary 
and committee acting under Rule 1, in which case his name shall be announced 
simultaneously with the meeting, or elected by the votes of the subscribers tak- 
ing nominations ; but each subscriber shall have only one vote, whatever the 
number of his nominations. Not less than ten days’ notice of the day of election 
shall be given to the subscribers, and the appointment shall be published at least 
a fortnight before the meeting. The names of the subscribers voting, with the 
votes given by them, shall be recorded in a book open to the inspection of the 
stewards, who shall declare the number of votes for each judge, if called upon 
to do so by any of the subscribers. When a judge is prevented from attending 
or finishing a meeting, the committee and the stewards (if appointed) shall have 
the power of deciding what is to be done. 
3. DescripTion or Entry.—Every subscriber to a stake must name his dog 
before the time fixed for closing the entry, giving the names (the running names, 
if they had any) of the sire and dam of the dog entered. The secretary shall 
publish on the cards the names of those who are subscribers but do not comply 
with these conditions. These nominations shall not be drawn, but must be paid 
for. For Produce Stakes the names, pedigrees, ages, and colours, and distinguish- 
ing marks of puppies, shall be detailed in writing to the secretary of a meeting 
at the time of the original entry. Every subscriber must also, if required, state 
in writing to the secretary, before or during the meeting for which such entry is 
made, the names and addresses of the parties who reared his puppies; and any 
puppy whose marks and pedigree shall be proved not to correspond with the 
entry given shall be disqualified, and the whole of its stakes or winnings for- 
feited. No greyhound is to be considered a puppy which was whelped before 
the rst of January of the year preceding the commencement of the season of 
running. A sapling is a greyhound whelped on or after the ist of January of 
the year in which the season of running commenced. 
4. The colours, sex, names, pedigrees, and ages of all greyhounds, with the 
names of their owners and the owners of their sires and dams, shall be regis- 
tered in a Greyhound Stud-Book. The registration fee shall be one shilling for 
each dog registered on or before the 1st of July, and a double fee shall be 
charged for registration of all greyhounds (other than saplings) after that date 
to the end of the coursing season immediately following. Any owner. may, by 
payment of £1 annually, compound for the registration of any number of grey- 
hounds bond fide his own property. The keeper of the Stud-Book shall give 
a receipt for the registration fee of every greyhound, which shall be called a 
certificate of registration. 
5. The Grevhound Stud-Book shall be published, under the authority of 
the National Coursing Club, on the first day of September, or as soon after as 
possible. 
6. Applications for registration of greyhounds shall be made on or before the 
first day of July, and registrations applied for subsequent to that date that do not 
appear in the Stud-Book of that year will appear in that of the following year. 
