Wed 22 Apr 1908
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1907 £655 15s 8d. After wages, etc, balance £212 6s 2d. Dividend of 10s declared.
Reserve Fund balance £569 4s 5d.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at their Office on Wednesday the 22^nd day of April 1908 @ 4.45pm
Cha^s H Hooper Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £655..15..8 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1907 to the 1^st day of April 1908 and a balance brought forward of £75..0..3 from last Half Year (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £730..15..11 of which sum £518..9..9 has been applied towards payment of wages, disbursement, etc (including a sum of £150, paid towards the deficit of the Revenue of the Thames and Severn Canal Act 1895) and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £212..6..2 ---available for Dividend---.
Ordered that a Dividend of £-..10^s/..- per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £112..6..2 to next Half Years Account.
The sum of £49..3..5 in the hands of the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit & Offices C^o Let and £500 in Cape of Good Hope 3½% Inscribed Stock costing £520..1..0 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £569..4..5.
It was 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 Vice-Chairman, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr W J Stanton, Mr W Davies, Mr A J M Ball, Mr E P Little, Mr A B Hooper, Mr S S Marling, Mr P J Evans, Mr F A Little, Mr J R M Ball, Mr F S Whittingham.
Notice of meeting pasted onto page.
