Minutes Tue 27 Oct 1868

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Tue 27 Oct 1868

Summary

General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 April £1509 10s 1d. After wages, etc, profit £831 9s 11d. Dividend of £4 declared.
Messrs H H Wilton and T M Croome be re-elected members of the Committee.

Verbatim text

At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held a the Committee Room at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 27^th day of October 1868
M^r G H A Beard 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 £1509..10..1 has been received from the 1^st day of April to the 1^st day of October Ins't part of which has been applied toward the payment of Wages disbursements, etc, there remains in the hands of the Treasurer after paying the last Dividend the sum of £831..9..11.
Ordered that a Dividend of four Pounds on each Share be declared payable on the 1^st day of November next free of Income Tax.
Resolved that Mess^rs H H Wilton & T M Croome be reelected Members of the Committee.

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