Tue 24 Apr 1900
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1899 £799 12s 8d. After wages, etc, profit £454 8s 11d. Dividend of £1 10s declared.
At A General Half-Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at their Office at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 24^th day of April 1900 at 3.30pm
Mr C H Hooper Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £799..12..8 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1899 to the 1^st day of April 1900 and a balance brought forward of £184..2..7 from the last Half-Years A/c (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £983..15..3 of which sum £529..6..4 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 Act 1895) and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £454..8..11 available for Dividend.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..10..0 per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £154..8..11 to the next Half-Years A/c.
The sum of £543..8..8 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 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 Caruthers Little, Mr E Palling Little, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr S S Marling, Mr P H Evans.
