The Three Stewards, or any two of them, shall be vested with full power to make such regulations as they think proper, in regard to the Exercise Ground and the Course. The three Stewards, concurring, shall have it in their power to appoint such person, or persons, as they may chuse, to keep the Coffee House, Match Book, receive the STAKES, collect the entrance money, and all other FUNDS belonging to the Jockey Club. The Stewards are to be responsible to the Jockey Club for all the money collected, as belonging to the Jockey Club. The Stewards shall have it in their power to fix the hours of starting for each match, &c. but they shall be obliged to fix those hours of starting by eight o'clock in the evening preceding the day of running. The accounts are to be produced by the Stewards annually, on the third of June.
Watching Trials.—Any gentleman who keeps running horses, having cause to complain of any FEEDER, RIDER, GROOM, BOY, or other person employed by him in, or intrusted with, the knowledge of trials, or having discovered them, directly or indirectly, by betting, or wilfully in any other way, (unless so allowed to do by his master;) or if any person, as aforesaid, living with any gentleman, shall be discovered in watching trials himself, or procuring other persons so to do, or by any unfair means whatsoever, endeavouring to discover trials; on such complaint being carried to any one of the Stewards, that Steward is to summon a general Jockey Club meeting so soon as convenient; which meeting is to appoint a Committee of three Members, to examine into the accusation; and in case they shall be of opinion, that the person, or persons, is, or are, guilty, then the person so found guilty shall be dismissed from the service of his master, and the said person shall not be employed by any Member of the Jockey Club in any capacity whatsoever; nor shall any horse, &c. fed or rode by him, or them, or in the management of which he or they are concerned, be suffered to start for PLATE, MATCH, or SUBSCRIPTION. And the names of the persons found guilty of these offences shall be exposed in the Racing Calendar, and inserted in a paper to be fixed up in the Coffee Room at Newmarket.
Staking, Shewing, and Entering.—That a copy of all the stakes to be made for matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, and the day and hour of shewing, or entering, shall be fairly written out, and fixed up, by order of the Stewards, on the side of the chimney-piece, at each end of the Coffee Room, on the Sunday evening before each meeting; to continue there each day of the meeting, as notice for staking, shewing, or entering; and no other shall be insisted upon.
Entry of Stakes.—A day-book shall be kept by the person appointed by the Stewards, and continue in the Coffee Room, in which shall be entered an account of all matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, to be run for each day within that meeting; and as the different stakes are made, the payments shall be marked to the names of the persons so paying.
Stakes, how to be made.—All stakes shall be made in cash, bank bills, bank post bills properly indorsed, bankers notes payable to bearer, or bankers notes payable to order, also properly indorsed, and not otherwise, without the consent of the party or parties present, concerned in the MATCH, SUBSCRIPTION, or SWEEPSTAKES, on whose account such stakes are made.
Time when.—All stakes for matches, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, shall be made before starting for the same; and in default thereof by any person, he shall forfeit in like manner as if he had not produced his colt, filly, horse, or mare, to start; and shall have no claim to the stake or stakes of the MATCH, SUBSCRIPTION, or SWEEPSTAKES, should his colt, filly, horse, or mare, have started, and come first; and this to remain in full force, as an established agreement of the Jockey Club; unless such person has previously obtained the consent of the party or parties present, with whom he is engaged, to dispense with his making his stake as aforesaid.
Forfeits when to be paid.—All forfeits unpaid before starting, for any MATCH, SUBSCRIPTION, or SWEEPSTAKES, shall be paid to the person appointed by the Stewards to receive the same, at the Coffee Room, before twelve o'clock at night, of the day such forfeits are determined; and each person making default therein, shall forfeit and pay to the person so appointed by the said Stewards, after the rate of five pounds for every hundred pounds so forfeited; which shall be disposed of by the said Stewards towards such uses as they shall think fit.
Bets made from Signal.—And in order to prevent such frauds, notice shall be given, that if any person make any bet or bets, from signal or indication, after the race has been determined at the post, such person is not entitled to receive, or liable to pay, the same; as such bet or bets are fraudulent, illegal, and totally void; and that if any servant belonging to a Member of the Society should be found to have made, or to have been engaged in the making, any such bet or bets, he shall be dismissed his service, and no farther employed by any Member of this Society.
Forfeits and Compromises to be entered.—That all forfeits, or money paid on compromising any match or sweepstakes, shall BONA FIDE be declared and entered in the day-book, in order that all BETTORS may be put upon an equality with the persons who had the match or sweepstakes, and may thus ascertain in what proportion they are to pay or receive.
Age of young Horses.—The Stewards shall appoint some proper person to examine every COLT or FILLY, being of the age of two, three, or four years, at the ending post, immediately after running, the first time any colt or filly shall start for any plate, match, sweepstakes, or subscription, at Newmarket; and the said appointed person is to sign a certificate of such examination, and his opinion thereupon, which certificate is to be hung up before eight o'clock the evening of the said day of running in the Coffee Room at Newmarket. But for all plates, matches, subscriptions, or sweepstakes, where the colt or filly is required to be shewn before running, the examination shall be made at the time of shewing them; and the certificate of the person appointed, shall immediately, in like manner, be fixed up in the Coffee Room at Newmarket.