Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company . . .

30.6.1862 : The Secretary was ordered to write to Messrs. Fisher & Pearson for their inventory and valuation of Messrs. Smith & Knight's Plant on the Dock Works.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,800.

14.7.1862 : Mr. Hardie saw the Board on the subject of his Contract for excavation of the Ely. He asserted that a balance for work done was due to him and asked for it to be paid. He was informed that on completion of his Contract he would be paid the amount agreed upon (up to £250 given on account). Mr. Hardie was desired to inform the Directors at the next meeting whether he is prepared to complete his Contract or not, within a time named by the Company.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,800.

28.7.1862 : Mr. Hardie to be informed that the Directors considered his Contract void, and time having long elapsed within which it was to have been completed. They are willing to reopen negotiations with him on his engaging to complete the work within a time approved by the Company and finding an approved guarantor in the sum of £250 for such completion.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,600.

12.8.1862 : Mr. Dobson to report on the value, as old materials, of the tenements erected by Messrs. Rennie & Co. on the Company's land at Cogan Pill.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,600.

25.8.1862 : Ordered, that Mr. Dobson be empowered to settle with Mr. Wood for the tenements at a sum not exceeding £100, but not to admit Rennie & Coy's right to remove the materials of the houses from the Company's pound.