HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



taking the hounds to his own kennels at Johns- 

 town. 



The Club met on November 4, 18 17, to consider 

 the arrangements rendered necessary by the ap- 

 proach of the end of Mr Kennedy's first period of 

 Mastership, which would expire on May i follow- 

 ing, and were much gratified to hear from him that 

 he was willing to continue the hounds on the same 

 terms, the guaranteed subscription of ;(^500 a year. 

 " Resolved," says a minute of that date, *' that the 

 thanks of the meeting be given to John Kennedy, 

 Esqr. for the very liberal and gentlemanlike manner 

 in which he has conducted the hunting of this 

 country, and we accept his proposal, which we 

 consider most liberal and in every respect highly 

 advantageous to the hunt provided we can raise a 

 sufficient subscription." 



With this laudable object twelve gentlemen pre- 

 sent guaranteed some £340, and it was decided to 

 ask each member of the Hunt to become " a sub- 

 scriber to the establishment." At a further meeting 

 held in January, 18 18, it was resolved " that in 

 order to assist the funds of the hunt, the sum of 

 one shilling and eightpence per each day of hunting 

 be collected and added to the earthstopper's fund." 

 How successful all these measures proved in main- 

 taining amicable relations between master, hunt, 

 and farmers is, I think, manifest from the fact that 

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