12.--A candidate wishing to enter a table must declare such intention prior
to any of the players having drawn a card, either for the purpose of
commencing a fresh rubber or of cutting out.
12a.--Any candidate may declare into any table that is not complete. If he
do so he shall have priority over any candidate who has not previously
declared in.
13.--In the formation of fresh tables, those candidates who have not played
at any other table have the prior right of entry; the others decide their
right of admission by drawing.
14.--Any one quitting a table prior to the conclusion of a rubber may, with
consent of the other three players, appoint a substitute in his absence
during that rubber.
15.--A player cutting into one table, whilst belonging to another, loses
his prior right of re-entry into that latter, and takes his chance of
cutting in, as if he were a fresh candidate, and last in the room.
16.--If any one break up a table, the remaining players have the prior
right to him of entry into any other, and should there not be sufficient
vacancies at such other table to admit all those candidates, they settle
their precedence by drawing.