Thu 26 Apr 1838
Half Yearly General Meeting. Tonnage £2956 16s 2d. Balance after wages, etc, £2529 0s 1d. Dividend of £12 10s declared.
Committee for next year: Mr G H A Beard, Mr Frederick Eycott,Mr P H Fisher Mr Samuel Fisher, Mr George Wathen, Mr William Stanton, Mr William Cosham, Dr Darke, Mr J I Fisher, Mr John Holbrow, Mr Robert Hughes, Mr Henry Wyatt.
Henry Wyatt appointed Treasurer of Company.
Messrs Isaac Marshall & Co. of Birmingham applied for order or guarantee for crane applied for to them by Joseph Small.
At a General half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn Stroud on Thursday the 26^th Day of April 1838
John Holbrow Esq^r in the Chair.
The minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The several Books & accounts of the Company were produced (as directed by Act of Parliament) and were examined & confirmed.
It appears by the Accounts that the sum of £2956..16..2 has been received for Tonnage, etc, from the 12^th Day of October last to the 14^th day of April Insant a part of which has been applied towards the payment of Wages disbursments, etc, and that there remains in the Treasurers Hands (after paying the last Dividend) the sum of £2529..0..1.
Ordered that a Dividend of Twelve pounds ten shillings be paid on each Share by the Treasurers on the first Day of May next; and that our Clerk do transmit circular Letters to all the Proprietors to inform them that they many draw upon the Treasurers or apply to them for payment of the same.
The following Gentlemen are appointed a Committee for the ensuing Year, viz:
G H A Beard, William Cosham, T C Croom, D^r Darke, Fred Eycott, J F Fisher, P H Fisher, John Holbrow, Sam^l Fisher, Robert Hughes, George Wathen, Henry Wyatt, William Stanton.
In consequence of the dissolution of the Firm of Watts, Wyatt & C^o, the late Treasurers their resignation is announced: and
Ordered that Henry Wyatt Esquire be appointed, and he is hereby appointed the Treasurer of this Company.
Mess^rs Isaac Marshall & C^o of Birmingham having applied to our Clerk for an order (or quarantee) for the Crane which Joseph Small has applied for to them-:
Ordered that this Letter be referred to the Committee to do therein as they shall see fit.
Ordered that when the Canal shall be stopped at Whitsuntide next; the Mud soil and silt in the pound or level below the Five Locks be removed, and that the Committee do make the necessary arrangements for that purpose.
Ordered that Mess^rs Croome, Wyatt & Beard having reported their inspection of the Wall at Ryeford and the alterations suggested therein, the same be referred to the Committee.
