Tue 25 Apr 1899
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1898 £859 11s 2d. After wages, etc, profit £435 2s 9d. Dividend of £1 10s declared.
At a General Half-Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 25^th day of April 1899 @ 3.30 o'clock pm
Mr C H Hooper Chairman.
The Minutes of the Committee since the last General Meeting were approved and confirmed.
It appears that the sum of £859..11.2 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1898 to the 1^st day of April 1899, and a balance brought forward of £251..7..1 from the last Half Years Accout (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £1110..18..3 of which sum £675..15..6 has been applied towards payment of wages disbursements, etc (including a sum of £150 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 £435..2..9 available for Dividend.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..10..0 on each share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £135..2..9 to the next Half Years Account.
The sum of £509..5..11 in the hands of The Chancery Land Safe Deposit and Offices Company Limited 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 (viz) 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 S S Marling, Major Fisher, Mr E C Little, Philip Jas Evans.
