The Hon. Secretary, Treasurer, and Committee. 14S 



In hunts run by a committee he will have to 

 order all the supplies for the kennels, pay the 

 accounts, wages, and so forth, keep the books, pre- 

 pare the annual report and financial statement. 

 Where the better plan is followed of guaranteeing 

 the Master a fixed sum or a minimum, and leaving 

 him the entire management of kennels, the financial 

 part of the Secretary's work will be limited to 

 collecting the subscriptions and handing them over 

 to the Master at regular intervals — say, before the 

 commencement, in the middle, and at the end of 

 the hunting season. In cases where the Master runs 

 his own pack and does not ask for, or merely 

 ''accepts," subscriptions, he is usually his own 

 Secretary; when the field-duties of the Secretary 

 as enumerated above are divided between the 

 Deputy- Master, the Field- Master, or some of the 

 whippers-in or other prominent members of the hunt. 



It is usually the better plan for the Secretary to 

 act also as Treasurer : but if there be an Honorary 

 Treasurer appointed his duty will be merely to 

 receive such moneys as the Secretary may hand him 

 and pay them out again at the latter's request, ren- 

 dering an account of receipts, expenditure, and of 

 the balance at the annual general meeting of the 

 hunt. In any case where subscriptions are taken 

 it is more satisfactory if the accounts are duly 

 audited and passed by one or two honorary auditors 



