Tue 12 Oct 1813
Half Yearly General Meeting. Tonnage £1585 5s 9½d. Balance after wages, etc, £729 8s 3½d. Dividend of £3 10s declared.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn in Stroud on Tuesday the 12^th of October 1813
James Tyers 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 £1585..5^s..9½^d has been received for Tonnage from the 13^th of April last to this day also the Sum of 13^£..2^s..9^d for Rents, part of which sums have been applied towards the payment of Wages, Disburstments, etc, there remains in the Treasurers hands after paying the last Dividend the Sum of £729..8^s..3½^d.
Ordered that a Dividend of £3..10^s 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.
