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RT Tanner & Co Ltd

A Meeting of Directors held 15 Feb 1908 [sic] must be 09

Bays illness & customers
Distribution of work in office
Salaries to travellers in proportion to returns
Sample books to be made writings, printings Banks
See Haddon re Cropper
Posting or delivering samples cards to customers
Recd Messrs Marreco’s letter respecting resolutions passed at last meeting as follows
16 Jan 1909 “The Directors fees can only be altered by the Company in General meeting not by the Directors themselves”.

F Garrett
A Tanner
A Eames
H S Pearsall

A Meeting Directors held 29 March 1908 [sic] must be 09

Bays illness & distribution of customers
Weis loan
Stocktaking arranged for Wednesday 31st inst
Stock lists made out & prices of Papers fixed by Directors at meeting
The loan from J A Weis of £7000 which is due on the 30th March was discussed. Mr Garrett informed the meeting that he had arranged with Mr Weis for a renewal for 5 years to the 1 March 1914 with an option for Mr Weis to terminate it on the 27th March 1912 by giving six months notice and that a promissory note had been given to Mr Weis for £7000 at three years from the 27th March 1909 this was unanimously agreed to.

At the third ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders held at 16 Dorset Street E.C. on the 9th day of June 1909

The Secretary read the Notice convening the meeting.

Mr Garrett proposed and Mr Tanner seconded, that the alterations in the Articles of Association suggested at the held on May 25 be confirmed, and this was unanimously agreed to.

The Balance sheet for a/cs to March 1908 was read over and unanimously adopted.

Resolved to pay a dividend of 5% on the 1st Preference Shares to the above date and 4% on the second preference shares.

Mr Garrett proposed and Mr Tanner seconded that Messrs Marecco & Co be elected Auditors for the ensuing year which was carried unanimously.

L V Houseman expressed his thanks to the Directors & Shareholders for the re-appointment.

Proposed by Mr Houseman, seconded by Mr Garrett and carried unanimously that the Salaries of Mr Pearsall, Mr Tanner and Mr Eames be at the rate of £600 per annum from Oct 1st 1908.

F Garrett Chairman

A meeting of Directors held on the 19th July at which the undersigned were present the Accounts for the year ending 31 March 1909 were submitted examined by the Directors it was proposed to call a general meeting for the purpose of passing the accounts on the 27th July 1909 at 12.15

Meeting of Directors held 7th September 1909

It was decided to affix the Seal of the Company with the Directors Signatures to an agreement between the 20th Century Press & R T Tanner & Co. in respect to a Debenture for £300 to be issued to R T T & Co on security for our debt against the 20th Century Press, this was done in the presence of the Secretary

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held as the Registered Office 16 Dorset Street E.C. on May 25th 1909 at 3 o’clock in the afternoon

Mr Garrett proposed that the following be added to article 29

29th “No Preference Share shall be transferred with the previous consent by resolution of the Directors who my withhold their consent without assigning any reason”
Seconded by Mr A Tanner and carried unanimously.

Mr Garrett proposed and Mr A Tanner seconded, that the following words be added to articles 23 and 24 after the words “Provisions of articles 25,26,27 and 28 viz: “and as to the Preference Shares to the provision of article 29a”.

Resolved that a copy of the minute be forwarded to L V Houseman requesting him to file notice of alteration in articles of association at Somerset House if so required by the Act or deal with same in such manner as is necessary.

F Garrett 9 June 1909

Meeting Directors 27 September 1909

Mr Garrett informed the Board that Mr R B Ferguson had intimated to him this morning that in consequence of a very good offer of an appointment with another house, having been made to him, he wished to leave us as soon as convenient in any case within a month from this date.

It was decided to convey to Ferguson our extreme regret at parting with his services which are valuable to the firm, and to accept his resignation. To tell him that if it would be any great convenience to him, we could arrange to let him leave in a fortnight. The management of the staff in order to fill the vacancy to the best possible advantage was left over to another meeting to be held so soon as Mr A Tanner returned, he being away from office for the day.

At a meeting of Directors held on the 10th November 1909

A Deed of Assignment was presented prepared by Messrs
Assigning the copyright in numerous pieces of music (which were taken over from Messrs E R Smith & Co in satisfaction of their debt) to Mr E Smith upon his giving a promissory note for £107 which amount he undertook to pay at the rate of £1 per week beginning in March 1910 or 5/- per thousand on the numbers of copies sold.

The transfer of 1100 shares nos 3266/4365 inclusive in the Adhesive Dry Mounting Co Ltd was made out by Mr Garrett to Mr Charles Cormeau (as the shares were held in Mr Garrett’s name) to cancel the arrangement which was made with Mr Cormeau for payment to him of a certain percentage of the profits in lieu of it and which agreement is to be destroyed.

It was resolved to buy outright the telephone wire connecting the Tudor Street and Primrose Hill premises from the National Telephone Co for the sum of £6.15.0.
The Secretary was instructed to write the Telephone Company accordingly which was done.

At a Meeting of Directors held on the 29th Nov 1909 at 16 Dorset Street E.C.

Mr Garrett reported that he had interviewed Mr J Milne who made a request for a loan of £250 until February. The Directors decided that in view of the fact that we required all the monies coming in for current business expenses and purposes, that at the present time it was not convenient to make a loan.

The application of Mr Richard Charles Smith for the position of Traveller in our firm was considered. He stated that he had been employed for many years at Messrs Bowaters as inside manager of a department, that wishing to be a traveller he had left them. It was decided to accept his offer and to take him on as a Traveller, on approbation for a period of twelve months to see if he succeeded and that he was to be paid a salary of £2.10.0 per week and a commission of 1¼% on such orders as produced a profit of not less than 5%. Orders taken on any other term would have to be considered on their own merits in regard to commission.