Tue 20 Jan 1789
Meeting at Crown & Anchor Tavern in the Strand
Resolved and Ordered the report of the commissioners at their meeting held at the King’s Head, Cirencester on the 3rd and 4th of December 1788 be approved and assented to by this meeting under the condition that no part be objected to by Lord Bathurst. If he objects to any part of the report, this meeting reserves the like power. Lord Bathurst to be paid monies owed to him.
Mr Thomas Lane appointed clerk to the Company of Proprietors of this canal.
Seal of the Company to be kept by the clerk in a box to be secured by three different locks, the keys to be kept by the clerk, the treasurer, and the other by some other member of the committee.
The seal only to be used at a committee when the document is signed by the chairman and countersigned by the treasurer. The seal then to be placed in the box and locked.
Clerk to take opinion of some eminent counsel respecting the bonds that have been issued to several proprietors on account of interest due to them and the proper mode of giving them security for such interest.
Next meeting to consider what money it will take to complete the plan for the canal. Mr Perry and Mr Whitworth desired to attend the meeting.
