Mode of RULES AND ORDERS OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. [These are only applicable to races run at Newmarket.] Respecting the Stewards. 1. The three Stewards of the Jockey Club shall be annual elec- continued in their office till the next annual financial tion. meeting (which takes place in the Craven) when the senior Steward shall vacate after settling the accounts made up to the 31st of December preceding, and shall then name a member of the Jockey Club to succeed him, subject to the approbation of the members of the Jockey Club then present, and at every subsequent financial meeting the senior Steward shall, in like manner, retire and propose his successor. In case of death or resignation. Substitute for absent Stewards. TheStewards officers: 2. If any of the Stewards shall die or resign, the remaining Stewards may appoint a member of the Club to succeed the deceased or declining Steward, but such nomination shall be notified to the Club at the first general meeting, and if the appointment meet their approval, the said member shall remain in office until the expiration of his predecessor's time. 3. When only one Steward is present, and neither of the absent Stewards shall have appointed a substitute, the member of the Jockey Club present who has last served the office shall act ex officio. 4. The three Stewards shall have the power of aphave power pointing all the public officers and the servants of the to appoint Club; the Keeper of the Match-book to receive the stakes and collect the entrance-money, and all other funds belonging to the Jockey Club; and the Stewards shall produce an account of the funds and disbursements of the Club at the annual financial meeting, and they shall be responsible to the Club for the correctness of the annual accounts, and for all the money collected as belonging to the Jockey Club. 5. The Stewards shall fix the hour of starting for each race at or before nine o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running, and notice of the time of starting is to be fixed up in the Coffee-room immediately afterwards. 6. The Stewards have full power to make such regulations as they may think proper in regard to the Course and Exercising-ground. 7. The Stewards of the Jockey Club have the power, in cases of urgent necessity, of putting off the races from day to day until a Sunday intervene. 8. All disputes relating to racing at Newmarket shall be determined by the three Stewards; if only two Stewards be present they shall fix upon a third person, being a member of the Club, in lieu of the absent Steward, but the Stewards, if they think fit, may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may refer the case to a general meeting, if the importance or difficulty of the matter in dispute shall appear to them to require it. The witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence, and if either party desire to have a short-hand writer engaged to take down the evidence, the Stewards may (if they think proper) engage a writer at the expense of the person making the request. may decide cases refer red to them from other places: 9. If any dispute arising elsewhere shall be referred to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, and they shall think fit to take it into consideration, the matter must relate to horse-racing, and be sent by the Stewards of the Meeting where the matter in question occurred. 10. The Jockey Club and the Stewards thereof take not to decide no cognizance of any disputes or claims with respect bettingcases: to bets. 11. The Stewards have a discretionary power to warn any person off the Race-course at Newmarket, or any premises belonging to the Jockey Club, and in case of such notice being disregarded, to take legal proceedings against the offenders. 12. If a member of the Jockey Club shall impugn or object to any act or decision of the Stewards, he shall give notice of it in writing to the Keeper of the Match-book, who will immediately request the Stewards to fix an early day to assemble the members for the purpose of hearing the objection. maywarn off the Course: act at Epsom and Ascot. For the For the New 13. Upon the request of not less than twenty members given in writing to the Keeper of the Match-book, the Stewards shall call a General Meeting of the Jockey Club in London within twenty-eight days of such requisition being presented. 14. The Stewards of the Jockey Club are, ex officio, Stewards of Epsom and Ascot. Respecting the Admission of New Members. 15. Ballots for the Jockey Club may take place in any of the Newmarket Meetings. A candidate must be proposed and seconded by two members in a meeting previous to the ballot, or in case the ballot take place in the Craven Meeting, notice of his being a candidate shall be given in the Sheet Calendar published next preceding that meeting, and also put up in the Coffeeroom on the Monday in that meeting; and notice to be given in writing, and put up in the Coffee-room, on what day the ballot will take place, at least one day before the time of balloting. Nine members (at the least) shall ballot, and two black balls shall exclude. Members of the Jockey Club being abroad for two or more whole years from the 1st of January, shall not be liable for their subscription during their absence. Honorary Members have not the power of voting at Meetings of the Club. 16. The ballots for Members of the New Rooms may be in any of the established Meetings at Newmarket. Each candidate must be proposed by a Member of the Jockey Club, and his Christian and Surname, and usua place of abode, with the name of the Member proposing him, put up in the Dining and Card-rooms at Newmarket (or in such other place as the Stewards shall appoint) on the day preceding the ballot. The ballot shall be in the morning, between the hours of eleven and one; or in the afternoon, between the hours of four and six. Members of the Jockey Club only shall be allowed to ballot. Nine members (at least) shall ballot, and two black balls shall exclude. If eighteen members ballot, there must be three black balls to exclude. 17. A Member of the Jockey Club may be admitted a Member of the New Rooms without ballot, by apply ing to Mr Weatherby, Keeper of the Match-book, and paying the same sum for his admission, and the same subscription, as are required of Members chosen by ballot. 18. The ballot for Members of the Coffee-room shall For the Coffce-r.on. be in the Coffee-room at Newmarket (or at such other place as the Stewards shall appoint) on any day in the present established Meetings, between the hours of eleven and one o'clock in the morning. Each candidate must be proposed by a Member of the Jockey Club, and his Christian and Surname, and usual place of abode, with the name of the Member proposing him, be put up in the Coffee-room the day before the ballot. Members of the Jockey Club only can ballot. Nine Members (at least) must ballot, and two black balls shall exclude. 19. A person, though chosen, shall not be considered Arrears of as a Member of any of these Clubs until he shall have Subscription paid the usual sums for the admission and subscription of a new Member. And the name of every Member whose subscription shall be in arrear for one year shall be placed over the chimney-piece in the New Rooms and in the Coffee-room at Newmarket, in the Craven Meeting in each year. And if such arrear be not paid at the end of the following Spring Meeting, he shall cease to be a Member, and shall not be again admitted as a Member until his arrears be paid, and until he be again chosen by ballot. If any Member of the Rooms or Stands at Newmarket shall leave his bill for household expenses unpaid two months after the same shall have been delivered to him, the Keeper of the Rooms is to report his default to the Stewards, who will cause notice to be sent to him, that if it be not cleared by a time to be mentioned in the said notice (not to exceed three months), his name will be erased from the list of Members, and he will be warned off the Heath. 20. The subscription to the New Rooms and Coffeeroom, and all other charges, except the subscription to the Jockey Club, are paid half-yearly; the July Meeting to be included in either half-year. non-Mom 21. Any Member of the Jockey Club (not being a Temporary Member of the New Rooms,) may be admitted to the admission of New Rooms and Coffee-room for any one Meeting, by bors. applying to Mr Weatherby, Keeper of the Match-book, VOL. XCVIII. c Election of . Foreigners. Admission to the Stands. How to engage the ground. without any other charge than the payment of two pounds. In the event of such person attending any other meeting in the course of the same year, he is to be considered as a Member of the New Rooms, and liable to all the usual charges. 22. If any foreigner should be proposed at any time as a candidate for the New Rooms or Coffee-room, an immediate ballot may take place for such election, and all foreigners who are elected are liable only to the household expenses. 23. Gentlemen not Members of the New Rooms or Coffec-room may be admitted to the Stands on Newmarket Heath on payment of a life subscription of ten pounds, provided that they are elected by ballot in the same manner as Members of the Coffee-room, and that the number so admitted shall not exceed fifty. 24. If any Member of the Jockey Club, or of the New Rooms or Coffee Room at Newmarket, should appear in the published Forfeit List as a defaulter for stakes or forfeits, or be reported by the Committee of the Subscription Rooms at Newmarket or at Messrs Tattersall's, as being a defaulter for bets lost on horse racing, the Stewards shall cause notice to be sent to him that if his default be not cleared by a time to be stated in the said notice (not to exceed three months) his name will be erased from the list of Members; and if a Member of any of these Clubs should be convicted of fraudulent practices on the Turf, or should compound with his creditors, he shall cease to be a Member. Trials. 25. The day, with respect to the engaging of the ground for trials, is divided into five periods, from the first day of the Craven Meeting to the last day of the Houghton Meeting-viz., from five to seven o'clock, and from seven to eight in the morning; from one to half-past two, from half-past two till four, and from four till five in the afternoon. During the rest of the year it is divided into three periods-viz., previous to nine in the morning, from one to half-past three, and after half-past three in the afternoon. No trainer shall have the ground for trying horses more than one portion of the morning and one portion of the afternoon in the same week, and trainers having less than ten horses shall be allowed to have the |