Tue 24 Oct 1786
Meeting at Kings Head Inn, Cirencester
Ordered that two pence per ton be taken at Daneway Wharf as a wharfage upon whatever is landed there and lays 24 hours and upwards.
That no water be drawn through the locks from one pond to another or from the reservoirs without the leave of directions of the wharfinger obtained in writing. Every person offending against this order as a bye law of the company is hereby directed to be prosecuted.
That a power to be given to Mr James Black and Mr Christopher Chambers and Mr Thomas Stevenson to make enquiries about a wharf at a convenient place in London and to agree the same if they judge it proper .
That the treasurer Mr Thomas Stevenson be directed to receive £4000 from Mr Henry Beesley of Worcestershire and deliver him Navigation Bonds to that amount.
That such orders as any one member of the committee be properly noticed and executed by the clerk and officers provided such orders be given in writing to the clerk to the company.
That a letter be wrote (sic) to Sir George Paul [wanting stone for Gloucester prison] informing him that although we have a very sincere desire to promote the every wish of Public Utility and are willing to contribute as far as is consistent with our convenience and yet having found in the course of the last summer the greatest inconvenience from the loss of water to supply the carriage of their stone and incurred thereby a very considerable expence in being obliged to send their own materials by land they find themselves under the necessity of making some regulations on that head either confining the carriage of their stone to such times as may suit their supply of water or by limiting their carriage of stone not to go beyond Brimscombe on this subject they wish to have Sir George Paul’s opinion.
That the small tunnel in future be made 6 feet high and 7 feet wide except in the valley bit which we desire may be drove forwards with the greatest dispatch of any size that may be thought necessary to draw off the water as speedily as possible.
That the rocky parts in Charles Jones’s work be sealed to their proper gauge and put into such a state under the direction of our engineer as to admit of arching wherever found necessary
That John Pickston be directed to bring the water after him (in his cutting of the Summit level) puddling and forming the banks as he goes forward.
The Committee was elected.
