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