Seconds are bound to attempt a reconciliation before the meeting takes place, or after sufficient firing or hits, as specified. Any wound sufficient to agitate the nerves and necessarily make the hand shake, must end the business for that day. All matters and doubts not herein mentioned will be explained and cleared up by application to the committee, who meet alternately at Clonmel and Galway, at the quarter sessions, for that purpose. Crow Ryan, president, James Keough and Amby Bodkin, secretaries. No party can be allowed to bend his knee or cover his side with his left hand, but may present at any level from the hip to the eye.
None can either advance or retreat, if the ground be measured.
The Irish Code Duello was followed to the letter by most gentlemen duelists of the Emerald Isle, but was often altered to suit the notions of contestants in England, Europe, and America. It will be recalled that it was Stephen Decatur who insisted ont9he murderous distance of four paces when he acted as the second for Bainbridge in his duel with James Cochran at Malta.