Tue 12 Oct 1790
General half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage £671 5s 8d. Balance £356 16s 5d. Dividend of £3 15s declared.
Committee to purchase coals not exceeding £500 to be landed at Dudbridge.
Mr Ben Grazebrook to pay £30 for half year tonnage and wharfage.
Solicitor to apply to Mr Keck for £58 5s 9½d for repair of Double Lock by Mr Clowes.
Produce of fish caught in canal £1 12s 1d.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held this Twelth Day of October 1790 at the George Inn in Stroud
Joseph Harford Esq^r in the Chair.
The Minutes of the last General Meeting were Read and Comfirm'd.
The several Books and Accounts were produced respecting the Affairs of the Company as directed by Act of Parliament & Examined ^ Confirmed,
It appears by the Accounts that the Sum of £671..5^s..8^d has been received for Tonnage from the thirteenth of April last to this day a part of which has been appropriated to the Payment of the last Dividend other part thereof have been expended in the Payment of Debts, Wages, etc there remains a Ballance in hand of £356..16..5. Ordered that a Dividend of Three Pounds, fifteen Shillings be made on each Share to be paid by the Treasurer on the first day of December nest, and that our Clerk do transmit circular Letters to those Proprietors who are absent from this Meeting to inform them that they may draw on the Treasurers or apply to them for Payment of the same.
Resolved unanimously that the Committee be impowered to purchase Coals no exceeding the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, and that they do Land a Quantity thereof at Dudbridge proportional to the usual Sales of that Place.
Ordered that M^r Benj^n Grazebrooks Barges to and from Glocester and Bristol do pass and repass the Canal till the next Half Yearly Meeting in consideration of his paying Thirty Pounds for Tonnage and Wharfage during that time.
Ordered that the Committee do direct our Sollicitor to apply to M^r Keck for Payment of Fifty eight Pounds five Shilling occasioned by the Repair of the Double Lock by M^r Clews, and in case of his non compliance that her pursue such measures as he shall see fit to enforce the same.
The Committee reported that the neat produce of Fish caught in the Canal pursuant to the direction of the last Meeting amounted to £1..12..1.
