Thu 26 Apr 1866
General Half Yearly Meeting.
Tonnage since 1 October 1865 £2049 5s 6d. After wages, etc, £1462 1s 4d profit. Dividend of £7 declared.
The Clerk to write to Members for the Borough of Stroud and County of Gloucester asking them to oppose Worcester and Birmingham Canal Bill on second reading. Reasons in Mr Waddy’s circular.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Wallbridge on Thursday the 26^th day of April 1866
W W Kearsey 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 Act of Parliament and were examined and passed.
It appears that the sum of 2049..5..6 has been received for Tonnage from the 1^st day of October 1865 and the 1^st day of April 1866 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 1462^£..1^s..4^d.
Ordered that a Dividend of seven pounds on each Share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax.
Resolved that the Clerk write to the Members for the Borough of Stroud and the County of Gloucester asking them to oppose the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Bill on the second reading for the reason given in M^r Waddy's Circular. Also that the Clerk write to M^r Waddy stating what we have done.
Resolved that the following Gentlemen shall form the Committee of the ensuing year: Mess^rs Hooper, C Hawker, Kearsey, Croome, Warman, Thornton, Phipps, C H Fisher, J T Fisher, Beard, J C Hallewell, S Marling & Wilton.
