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		agreed, subject to the approval of the Management
		Committee of the Football League, to pay Livingstone
		£500 thereout in satisfaction of his presumed
		accrued share of benefit. That upon our
		enquiring re their player Batten, arrangements
		had been made that Batten should be played
		in their match on Saturday and that should
		we be satisfied with his display, he to be
		transferred to us for a fee of £1000. That
		Messrs E. Green & J. Sharp visited the Plymouth match
		on Saturday & were so satisfied with the display
		of Batten that they obtained his transfer at
		the fee mentioned & had engaged the player
		for the remainder of the current season & for
		season 1926-7 at a salary of £6 per week during
		the close season  £8 per week during the playing
		season with a Signing on fee of £10.
			The transfer of Livingstone & the engagement
		of Batten on the terms above mentioned were
		confirmed.
			The Chairman gave a report of the deputation
		to Plymouth stating that the display of Livingstone
		on that occasion was a shockingly bad one, &
		one which caused the utmost dismay to the officials
		of the Argyle club, so much that in a subsequent
		discussion & as a measure of the disappointment
		of the Argyle Club with Livingstone, they desired
		us to review the terms of such transfer by
		waiving the balance payable to us upon the
		two transactions. That this proposal had been
		discussed at a meeting of our players sub Committee
		this afternoon & as a result he, the chairman
		proposed that being quite satisfied that the poor
		display of Livingstone was of so exceptional a