HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



its management in 1826, although since somewhat 

 modified, are, in the main, still in force. These, with 

 a list of the preses from the year 1797 to the pres- 

 ent time, will be found among the Appendices ^ to 

 this work. Kule 1 provides that the noblemen and 

 gentlemen connected with the counties of Linlith- 

 gow and Stirling, and none other, shall be eligible 

 to become members. Consequently it was not 

 possible for many who have since hunted with the 

 pack to become members of the Club ; but a kindly 

 feeling between the Club and the Hunt has always 

 existed, and in many years of the past century the 

 former contributed generously to the funds of the 

 latter.^ Rule 7 fixes the "Wednesday nearest the 

 full moon in the months of November, February, 

 and July" for the meetings of the Club, which 

 Rule 12 determines shall be held alternately in 

 Linlithgow and Falkirk. Now, these meetings 

 take place in the former town only, and irrespec- 

 tive of the state of the moon and any possible aid 

 which the members or their guests might derive 



^ Vide Appendix II. 



2 On 29th November 1848, it was unanimously agreed that "the 

 council and committee shall be empowered on balancing the accounts 

 in November, after providing for the reserve fund and the contingent 

 expenses of the year, to present to the master or manager of the Lin- 

 lithgow and Stirlingshire Foxhounds, such a sum as they consider the 

 state of the funds will permit, as expressive of the good wishes of the 

 Members of the Hunt Club and of their desire to renew association 

 with a fox-hunting establishment." — Minute-Book in the custody of 

 Messrs Glen & Henderson, Linlithgow. 



In each of the years 1848, 1849, 1851 to 1855 inclusive, 1857, 1858, 

 and 1862 to 1868 inclusive, the Club contributed to the Hunt funds. 

 It again did so in 1909. 



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