Tue 8 Oct 1811
Half Yearly General Meeting. Tonnage £1534 0s 3d. Balance after wages, etc, £865 2s. Dividend of £4 declared.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn in Stroud on Tuesday the 8^th of October 1811
Jos^h Grazebrook Esq^r in the Chair.
The Minutes of the last General Meeting were Read and Confirmed.
The several Books and Accounts were produced respecting the Affairs of the Company as directed by the Act of Parliament, examined and Confirmed.
It appears by the Accounts that the Sum of £1534..-^s..3^d has been received for Tonnage from the 9^th of April last to this day, a part of which has been applied towards the payment of Wages, Disburstments, etc, there remains in the Treasurers hands after paying the last Dividend and the Sum of £146..15^s..- for half a years Property Tax the Sum of £865..2^s..-.
Ordered that a Dividend of £4 on each Share be paid by the Treasurer on the first day of November next, and that our Clerk do transmit Circular Letters to all the Proprietors to inform them they may draw upon the Treasurer or apply to him for payment of the same.
