316 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1872 



Erection of Kennels and Stables, also Selection 



OF Site. 



With a view to obtain as large a scope as possible for 

 the selection of plans, your committee put an advertise- 

 ment in the Builder. The result has been that a large 

 number of competitors from all parts of England have 

 sent in designs and estimates. Your committee have not 

 yet been able to make a selection, and before doing so 

 would advise that the- future master or masters should be 

 members of the committee, in conjunction with such others 

 as you may think proper to appoint, and to whom we 

 would also suggest the selection of the site should be 

 referred, as your committee have not as yet come to any 

 definite conclusions on this difficult and important point. 



Covekt Fund. 



The subscription list having been most liberally filled 

 in, your committee would suggest that it is not necessary 

 to continue the old covert-fund subscriptions of five 

 pounds, but that what is requisite for that purpose shall 

 be drawn from the general fund, after having handed 

 over the two thousand five hundred pounds yearly, as 

 agreed upon, to the masters. 



The cost of rent of coverts, poultry compensation, etc., 

 is estimated at four hundred pounds yearly, consequently 

 the annual expenses of the hunt will amount to about two 

 thousand nine hundred pounds, exclusive of interest on 

 building debt. 



At the present moment the subscription list far exceeds 

 this in amount, and your committee would advise that 

 the balance over and above what may be required for the 

 above purposes shall be used in part payment of capital 

 due for expenditure on kennels, stables, and site, and your 

 committee would strongly advise and urgently beg that 

 present promised subscriptions shall not be reduced until 

 the building debt is paid ofi"; when that is accomplished 



