Tue 24 Jan 1797
Printed minutes of a General Assembly that agreed to suspend payment of the interest due to the several mortgagees and bond-creditors.
Proprietors are themselves creditors to the amount of two-thirds of the whole debt.
Tolls insufficient to discharge growing debt.
Increase in trade needed so more boats needed.
Proprietors to take half shares.
Net produce of tolls will be paid half-yearly to the trustees.
Several proprietors have built their own boats and let them to the Company.
Trade impacted by the defective state of the upper River Thames.
Boats have also been seized by customs officers on the River Severn on doubtful grounds.
Unusual drought has led to lower water levels.
An annuity paid to the patent of the fire engine.
