Tue 2 Oct 1787
Meeting at Kings Head Inn Cirencester
That the following be Bye Laws for which offenders will be punished: Two pence per ton taken for wharfage of coal lying longer than 24 hours; No pond of water to be drawn down without a written order; That no person be suffered to draw the water through the upper lashers of the locks to flush out their boats, or to throw any rubbish, weeds, soil, or stone into any of the ponds or locks; that no person whatever be allowed to use any shafts shod with iron, upon this navigation.
That the present stock of coal on the island at Brimscombe be removed to Daneway wharf for sale and that a stock of coal be kept there for sale.
Two barges to be employed in bringing coal from Stourport to Brimscombe on the company’s account.
Committee to enquire into the intended improvements on the River Thames and to guard the company’s interests.
Company to enter an agreement with the Stroud Company for the erection of a wharf wharehouse and alteration of the entrance lock at Framiload.
Stop gates at Coxes Barn and Coatsfield to be made be made by planks, let down in a groove on each side.
Towing path to be made under the bridge of the upper lock at Siddington and all other bridges.
Ordered that the line of the canal be followed as laid down in the parliamentary plan in passing over the estate of ……. Bush Esq held under the church of Bristol, between the 3rd and 4th locks near South Cerney.
That money due to the Company be collected by the clerk of the works.
That the hollow left by the slip of earth in the 8th pit be immediately filled up by Charles Jones under the direction of Mr Clowes the engineer.
That so long as the work in the tunnel be paid for by cubical measure, that the clerk of the works do deduct a proportion of the small tunnel according to the left, and to divide the quantity of work done by 34 cubical yards to constitute one yard in length.
The committee to support the intended improvement in navigation in the River Severn.
Committee elected.
