The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing Balance
Sheet, and compared the Items it comprises with the several
Books and Vouchers relating thereto, and have found the same
to be correct.
(Signed) HENRY OVERTON,}
JOHN WRIGHT, Auditors.
R. ESCOMBE,
London and County Bank, January 26, 1853.

The foregoing Report having been read by the SECRETARY,
the following Resolutions were severally proposed, and unani-
mously adopted :-
1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for
the use of the Shareholders.
2. That a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum be
declared upon the capital stock of the Company for the half
year ending the 31st December, 1852, together with a bonus of
£2 per cent.—both clear of the income-tax—payable on and
after Monday, the 14th day of February instant.
3. That the balance of £4,674195. 4d. remaining to the credit
of the Profit and Loss Account be carried to the Guarantee
Fund.
4. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chairman
and Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have
conducted the affairs of the Company during
Oresented to the
be
5. That the thanks rof this meeting P
the past year.
Auditors of the Company, viz., ROBERT Es CM 13 E, HENRY
OVERTON, and JOHN WRIGHT, Esqrs., and that they be re-
elected for the current year.
6. That the thanks of this meeting be presenNNttoichnd the other officers of
they
HENRY
discharged their LUARD, Esq., the General Manager,
zeal And
and ability with presented
the establishment, for the
have severally —scharged duties.
The ballot for the election of three Directors having teen pro-
ceeded with, the following gentlemen were unanimously re-
elected :—JoliN WHESP
ELTON, MCI, JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH,
Esq., n RINGETT, Esq.
and IlicHA(s-ig Dned) JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman.
The Chairman baying quitted the chair, it was resolved, and
carried unanimously—That the cordial thanks of this meeting
be presented to Joni,: SADLEIR,
Esq., for his able and courteous
conduct in the chair.
(Signed) J. G. FRITH.
[Extracted from the Minutes.]
(igned) R. P. NICHOLS, Secretary.

riullaCnnstElly
is HEREBY GIVEN, that the PART..
P lately subsisting between Businessverpool, in
mutual the
FTIE
consent;
in of Lancaster, in the Trade or of Grocers
Warehousemen, under the Style or Firm of
WATSON and ARCHER," was This Day DISSOLVED, by
as witness our hands, this 31st day of
January, 1853.

T. E. WATSON.
JOHN ARCHER.

Witness JNo.tCoxwAY,
Clerk to H. A. Ewer, Solicitor, Liverpool

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the PART-
NERSHIP heretofore subsisting between JOHN
GATES, FRANCIS COLMER BATH, RICHARD DOLBY,
and JOHN DREW BATH, as OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS,
in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, under the style or
firm of "Gates, Bath, and Company," and " Bath, Gates, and
Company," is this day DISSOLVED, by mutual consent. All
Persona having any Claims or Demands against the said Par-
ties are requested to send in their accounts to Messrs. EVANS
and SoN, Solicitors, Commerce-court, Lord-street, Liverpool.
Dated this 2nd day of February, 1853.
Signed by the said John") ~ -,,, v„
Gates, Richard Dolby, JOHN GATES.
John Drew Bath, and also RICHARD DOLBY. --
by the said John Bath, as FRANCIS COLMER BATH,
the Attorney for and on (by John Bath, his Attorney,
behalf of Francis Colmer acting under power of At-
Bath, in the presence of torney, dated 13th of August,
WM. JONES, Clerk to 1 852.
1)
Messrs. Evans and Son,
JOHN DREW BATH.
&Helton, Liverpool. .1