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IN Witness whereof this said Bye Law has been put
into writing under the Common Seal of the Company
in the presence of such General Assembly and in ac-
cordance with the Provisions of the said hereinbefore
recited Act passed in the sixteenth year of the Reign
of his late Majesty King George the Third.
BYE LAW
Made at a General Assembly of the Proprietors of
the Stroudwater Navigation Company, held at Wall-
bridge, in the Parish of Painswick, in the County of
Gloucester, on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, in pursuance of and in
accordance with the Provisions of a certain Act of
Parliament made and passed in the sixteenth year of
the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third,
intituled
“ An Act to amend an Act passed in the third year
“ of his late Majesty’s reign, intituled, 'An Act for
“making navigable the River Stroudwater, in the
“County of Gloucester, from the River Severn, at or
“near Framilode, to Wallbridge, near the Town of
“Stroud in the same County ; and for giving other
“Powers for the purpose of making a Navigation
“from Framilode to Wallbridge aforesaid.”
It was in accordance with the Provisions of the said
recited Act and for the good government of the said
Company and the good and orderly using of the said
Navigation, ORDERED AND ENACTED by such Assembly
as a Bye Law
XXI. That in all cases where for want of water
or any other cause or reason whatsoever, any Boat,
Barge, Keel, or other Vessel, shall stop or be deta-
ined any spot or place in the said Navigation. it
