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on my having any official connection with the hunt ; 

 they will hold good whatever committee or master 

 may be appointed, so long as they are suitable." 



Mr. St. Maur's offer was certainly an exceedingly 

 generous one and made in the spirit of a true sports- 

 man. I do not know the reasons that precluded the 

 hunt from availing itself of such an offer, unhampered 

 as it was by any conditions ; but the fact remains 

 that the proposal was not accepted, and the sub- 

 committee proceeded to the consideration of the 

 functions deputed to it of making arrangements to 

 hunt the country. 



Meanwhile, an application was received from Mr. 

 Gilbert Spiller and Mr. G. C. Ralston, the newly 

 appointed joint-masters of the Mid-Devon, for leave 

 to hunt a further part of the South Devon country, 

 and a loan for one season was assented to of certain 

 portions of the South Devon country as coloured on a 

 map and which may be identified by the following 

 description : — 



1. A tract of land lying on the west of the Teign 

 and bounded on the east by that river, on the north 

 by the Exeter and Moretonhampstead road starting 

 from a point just below Dunsford, on the west by the 

 road leading from Chagford to Lustleigh and on the 

 south by an irregular line starting from the last- 

 named village, continuing to Kelly, thence to Slade 

 Cross and Poolmill Cross, and so, following the road 

 from there to Hennock, rejoining the Teign at 

 Crocombe Bridge. 



2. A tract of land lying on the east of the Teign, 

 its western boundary marching with the piece 

 numbered 1 above from Dunsford to Bridford Mill, 

 bounded on the south and east by the road from 



