The answer was to ask the MCC if they could use their ground on the half holidays and have a meeting of the committee on 17 May to redraw up the rules of 1858 to suit their game better. Melbourne Football Club (MFC) rules of 1859 are the oldest surviving set of laws for Australian football. They were drawn up at the Parade Hotel East Melbourne on 17 May 1859 by the committee of MFC which included Thomas Wentworth Wills, William Hammersley, J. B. Thompson, Mr Bruce, Mr Wray, Mr Sewell and Thomas Smith (some sources erroneously include H. C. A. Harrison).