Tue 25 Apr 1865
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Tonnage since 1 October 1864 £1853 4s 2d. After wages, etc, £1253 1s 9d profit. Dividend of £6 5s declared.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 25^th day of April 1865
M^r S Phipps in the Chair.
The Minutes of the Committee since the last General Assembly were read approved and confirmed.
The several books and Accounts were produced as directed by the Act of Parliament and were examined and passed.
It appears that the sum of 1953^£..4^s..2^d has been received for Tonnage from the 1^st day of October 1864 to the 1^st day of April 1865 part of which has been applied towards the payment of Wages, Disbursements, etc, there remains in the hands of the Treasurer after paying the last Dividend the sum of 1253^£..1^s..9^d.
Ordered that a Dividend of £6..5..0 on each Share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax.
Resolved that the following Gentlemen shall form the Committee for the ensuing year: Mess^rs Hooper, Beard, Warman, Wilton, J T Fisher, C H Fisher, W W Kearsey, Eycott, Croome and Hawker.
