These repositories are conducted upon principles of the most unsullied integrity by the present proprietors; and under fixed regulations, which admit of no opening for cavil or discontent. Horses sent in for SALE are immediately BOOKED, with the instructions of the owner; whether he is to be sold _to the best bidder_, or a specific sum mentioned, _at less_ than which he is not to be disposed of. The expences are as follow; a certain price per day and night, as long as he is continued there. If brought out, and put up at the hammer, and not sold, half a crown. If sold, the commission for selling is five per cent. in addition to the auction duty of _ten-pence_ in every POUND; but if sold by private contract, either _before_ or _after_ the PUBLIC AUCTION, no duty to government is payable whatever. Other rules attach invariably to each establishment. Horses may be sold _with_ or _without_ a WARRANTY, at the option of the owner. If sold _bona fide_ to the BEST BIDDER, and no declaration made, or questions asked, respecting SOUNDNESS, he is then said to be sold with _all his faults_; which the purchaser must abide by, and has no plea for _return_, however he may repent the purchase he has made. On the contrary, when the horse is sold at the hammer, and warranted sound, under the authority of, and by commission from, the owner, although the purchase-money is deposited when the horse is taken away, yet the purchaser has that and the following clear day to ascertain the perfect, sound and healthy state of the horse so purchased, when during which time so allotted him, if he returns the horse or mare, with proper and indisputable proof of palpable lameness or defect, the purchase-money is of course returned, and such horse or mare again becomes the property of the former owner: and for the regular support of this equitable and necessary part of the establishment, no person selling such horse at either of the repositories, can demand the money in payment till two clear days from the day of sale. Instances sometimes arise, where the owner of a horse sold with a WARRANTY, has refused to accede to the return of the purchase-money, upon a plea of justification, that such horse or mare was positively SOUND when _sold_. In cases of this kind, the proprietor of the repository retains the money in hand; an action is commenced against him by the purchaser of the horse returned, (for the money so paid, and which he cannot get back,) upon being indemnified by the original owner; he becomes the NOMINAL DEFENDANT, and the case goes before a JURY, to be decided by the glorious _uncertainty_ of the law; as in all HORSE CAUSES, the witnesses are so _critically conscientious_, that there are generally as many OATHS on one side as the other.