Tue 26 Apr 1898
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1897 £894 11s 11d. After wages, etc, profit £566 0s 8d. Dividend of £2 declared.
At a General Half-Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 26^th day of April 1898 @ 3.30pm
Charles H Hooper Chairman.
The Minutes of the Committee since the last General Meeting were approved and confirmed.
It appears that the sum of £894..11..11 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1897 to the 1^st day of April 1898, and a balance brought forward of £191..0..3 from last Half-Years Account (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £1085..12..2 of which sum £559..11..6 has been applied towards payment of Wages Disbursements, etc, (including a sum of £150 paid towards the deficit of the Revenue of the Thames and Severn Canal Trust, under the Trust Act 1895) and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £526..0..8 available for Dividend.
Ordered that a Dividend of £2..0..0 on each share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax, carrying forward a balance of £126,,0,,8 to the next Half-Years A/c.
The Sum of £486..11.1 in the hands of The Chancery Lane Safe Deposit and Offices C^o Ltd stands to the Credit of the Reserve Fund.
Resolved that the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee be appointed: Mr C H Hooper Chairman, Mr H Hamilton Mills Solicitor, Mr W J Stanton, Mr A J M Ball, Mr A B Hooper, Mr W Davies, Mr E P Little, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr E C Little, Mr S S Marling & Major Fisher.
