Tue 21 Jul 1891
Messrs Holmes & Co. declined to rent Ship Inn for term of years.
Wm Chapman of Dursley offer for 7, 14 or 21 years at £40 p.a. accepted.
Police Sergeant Smith of Stonehouse complained of boys bathing in canal on Sunday 5 July. Letters to boys forbidding repetition.
Mrs E Daniels’ rates on cottage to be paid by Company.
Application by Foreman of Mud Boat Labourers, James Powell, for advance of wages refused.
Outstanding dividend of £6 claimed by Walter Symes Harris.
Charles Henry Hooper claimed shares nos.48,49,58,65,111,117,138,139,157,177, will of George Henry Augustus Beard; also shares nos.42,66,102 jointly owned by G H A Beard and Henry Harris (deceased) and shares nos. 45,46,53,71,97 jointly owned by G H A Beard and Frances Lockey (deceased).
Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 21^st day of July 1891 @ 3,o,clock pm
Present: Mr E C Little Chairman, Mr C H Hooper, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr W J Stanton, Major Fisher, Mr W^m Davies, Mr E F Gyde, Mr Jno Howard, Mr E P Little.
The Ship Inn -- Messrs Little & Mills reported that Messrs Holmes & Co had declined to take the Inn for a term of years and that Mr Chapman of Dursley had offer to do so for 7, 14 or 21 years at a rent of £40 a year. It was resolved that Mr Chapman's offer be accepted, and instructions given to Messrs Little & Mills to prepare the necessary agreement.
The tenant of Dudbridge wharf house & premises (Mr Martin) having given notice of his intention to leave on the 19^th September the Clerk was directed to advertise in the Stroud papers that they were to let.
A letter was read from Police Sergeant Smith of Stonehouse complaining of some boys bathing in the Canal on Sunday the 5^th inst. Letters were directed to be written to the Boys forbidding a repetition of the offence, to be handed to them by the Police Sergeant.
Mrs E Daniels having applied for her rates on the Cottage she occupies to be paid by the Co it was resolved that her application be complied with.
The foreman of the Mud Boat Labourers (James Powell) having applied for an advance of wages, his application was refused.
An outstanding dividend of £6..0..0 for the half-year due 1^st May 1882 in respect to Shares No 52 and 55 having been claimed by Walter Symes Harris through Messrs Croome Ball & Smith, and duly proved it was resolved that a cheque or dividend warrant be drawn for the Amount.
Charles Henry Hooper of Eastington in the County of Gloucester Woollen cloth Manufacturer attended and sole Executor of the Will of George Henry Augustus Beard late of the Parish of Leonard Stanley in the County of Gloucester Esquire deceased who died on the 4^th day of May 1891 at Leonard Stanley House in the said Parish and made out his claim to ten shares numbered respectively 48, 49, 58. 65. 111. 117. 138. 139. 157 and 177 of the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation and now standing in the name of the said George Henry Augustus Beard, also to shares numbered 42, 66 and 162 standing in the name of the said George Henry Augustus Beard and Henry Harris deceased, also to shares numbered 45, 53, 71. 97 and 180, standing in the names of the said George Henry Augustus Beard and Frances Lockey late of the City of Gloucester Widow deceased, who died on the 6^th day of June 1856, and whose Will with a Codicil was proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury on the 13^th day of September 1856 by the said George Henry Augustus Beard surviving Executor. The will of the said George Henry Augustus Beard bearing date the 13^th day of January 1886 and proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majestys High Court of Justice on the 15^th day of June 1891, and the claim was admitted accordingly and new tickets were ordered to be made out on the tickets or titles of the said George Henry August Beard deceased being delivered up. No Certificates for the shares numbered 42, 66 and 162 having been issued or if issued the same having been lost or mislaid, the said Charles Henry Hooper undertook to give the Company an indemnity against all liability by reason of the said shares being registered in the name of the said Charles Henry Hooper and certificated thereof being issued to him. And the claim was admitted accordingly and new tickets or titles ordered to be made out.
