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expressing their grateful sense of the manner in which 

 they have been thus met by Lord Vernon. 



To provide for the remainder of the debt, £1324 5s. Sd., 

 the committee agreed to subscribe the sum of £50 each, 

 and have appealed to the country to furnish the balance. 

 This appeal, they are glad to report, has been liberally 

 responded to, and they feel sanguine the required amount 

 will be forthcoming. 



General Meeting, January 25th, 1884. 

 (report.) 



The committee are happy to be able to report that the 

 appeal made to the country for subscriptions towards 

 the repayment of a portion of the debt on the kennels 

 which it was agreed at the last meeting should be paid 

 off, enabled them to borrow on mortgage a sum of £3600, 

 being less than the amount agreed to be lent by Lord 

 Vernon. 



The advance has since been reduced by yearly instal- 

 ments of £200 each, and now stands at £3200. 



The annual repayment of mortgage (£200) was con- 

 tinued to December, 1897, the last payment, when the 

 kennels became the property of the Hunt. 



Total cost of kennels, £12,240 16s. 6d 



Meynell Hunt. 



At a general meeting of the subscribers to the Hunt 

 held at the St. James's Hotel, Derby, on Friday, the 20th 

 January, 1888, for the purpose of taking into considera- 

 tion the desirability, or otherwise, of purchasing the 

 freehold of the kennels, and also to report as to the repairs 

 to stables and kennels, it was, after full consideration, 

 unanimously resolved that it is desirable in the interests 

 of the Hunt that the freehold of the kennels should be 

 purchased, and it was further resolved that the offer of 

 Lord Vernon to sell the same for a sum of £1000 be 

 accepted. 



