1.     By accepting the invitation to our annual nominating dinner, or any other Gold's Dragoons social event, members accept the authority of the officers of the Board of Directors in the execution of the program. Members are specifically responsible for the conduct of their guests. (We are guests of a private club and must offer the highest standards of personal conduct to ensure that we are able to continue to celebrate our dinners at the club). Inappropriate behavior by members or their guests will not be tolerated.

2.     All members should take their place card from the side table - together with that of any guest - and place it on the table position of their choice. All members and guests who have not yet supplied their full name, mailing address and email address should sign the Golden Book. (The book is our primary mechanism to induct new members).

3.     Members who have not attended the dinners or contacted the Membership Secretary or the Treasurer may be struck from the muster rolls after three years.

4.     All pre-dinner drinks ordered must be consumed on the veranda and cannot be brought to the table

5.     At a signal from Mr. Vice, all members, except the high table, shall take their chair positions, but remain standing.

6.     Led by the troop piper, and Mr. Vice with the troop guidon, the high table will enter and take their places. All members will remain standing until the saying of grace by the troop chaplain.

7.     Thereafter the dinner will follow the program described on the table menus.

8.     Mr. Vice is responsible for the comfort of the members of the mess and and their guests and all complaints and suggestions should be directed to him. He is also required to taste the beef, dinner wines and port and render a report to the Mess President.

9.     Members of the Mess may not address the Mess without the permission of Mr. Vice. Such permission shall not be unreasonably withheld.

10.    Any member of the mess guilty of a breach of mess rules may be punished by Mr. Vice at his discretion. Such punishments may take the form of modest fines or an embarrassing forfeit, such being upstanding and required to sing their unit's anthem or a patriotic song.

11.   Members who believe a miscarriage of justice may result from the action of Mr. Vice can appeal to the Mess President. At the sole discretion of the Mess President, the perpetrator may be pardoned upon a convincing and original excuse.

12.   In the event that the Mess President rejects the appeal, the charge returns to Mr. Vice who is empowered to double the fine or forfeit or devise whatever further humiliations he thinks proper.

13.   Members of the high table are exempt from fines or forfeit, as are guests of the mess. However, guests breaching the mess rules may see their sponsoring member fined or humiliated in their stead.

14.   At the conclusion of the meal the port will be circulated - always in a clockwise direction. With all glasses charged the Mess President will call on Mr. Vice to propose each toast in turn.

15.   Immediately prior to the dinner break the pipe band will parade, followed by the pipe major in a solo. At the conclusion of the solo the pipe major will halt at the Mess President, salute, and be offered a silver Quaich filled with the whiskey of his choice. The pipe major will thank the mess, drinking and inverting the Quaich to show that it is empty - by tradition, kissing it and responding in Gaelic: "slainte".

16.   As the pipe major retires it is customary to strike the table with an open palm, rather than applaud - which has the advantage of permitting the other hand to hold a drink.

17.   After a ten minute break the mess reassembles to hear the guest speaker.

18.   At the conclusion of the dinner, troop awards and trophies are presented and guests are formally inducted into the troop. Carriages are called for ten o'clock, but members tend to withdraw to the bar for further serious discussions.