Wed 23 Apr 1913
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage since 1 October 1912 £721 8s 7d. After wages, etc, balance £416 11s 5d. Dividend of £1 declared.
Reserve Fund balance £1195 12s.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at Wallbridge on Wednesday the 23^rd day of April 1913 @ 4 o'clock pm
Chairman.
It appears that the sum of £721..8..7 has been received from the 1^st day of October 1912 to the 31^st day of March 1913 and a balance brought forward of £298..19..0 from last Half Years A/c (after payment of Dividend) making a total of £1020..7..7 of which sum £603..16..2 has been applied towards the payment of wages, Disbursements, etc, (including the sum of £150..- paid towards the deficit of Revenue of the Thames and Severn Canal, Act 1895) and there remains in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of £416..11..5.
Ordered that a Dividend of £1..0..0 per share be declared payable on the 1^st day of May next free of Income Tax carrying forward a balance of £216..11..5 to the next Half Years A/c.
The sum of £86..1..6 in the hands of the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit and Offices C^o Ltd, and £500..- in Cape of Good Hope 3½% inscribed Stock costing £520..1..0 and £500..- North British Railway Cos 4½% Convertible Preference Stock 1875 costing £589..9..6 stands to the credit of the Reserve Fund making a total of £1195..12..0.
It was Resolved that the following Gentlemen form the Committee for the year next following or until another Committee be appointed viz:
M^r P J Evans Chairman, Sir W H Marling Bart, M^r W J Stanton, M^r W Davies, M^r E P Little, M^r S S Marling, M^r A J Morton Ball, M^r F S Whittingham, M^r J R Morton Ball, M^r H R Hooper & M^r J Margetson.
Copy of meeting notice pasted on page.
