Tue 23 Apr 1793
Meeting at Brimscombe Port House
Receipts of the company from the subscribers of the several shares of the proprietors have amounted to the sum of £130,000. The committee have borrowed on mortgage by virtue of the original act of parliament the sum of £60,000 and they have also borrowed on mortgage by Act of 31 Geo 111 the further the sum of £24,500, Total £214,500-0s-0d
Seal of Company fixed to Bonds dated August 1st 1788 the sum of £12,700 (interest £5 per cent) in part payment of interest due on shares at the rate of £10 per share. At the same time proprietors holding fewer than five shares the same proportion in cash amounting together to £300 – in all £13,000.
Interest remaining due to the proprietors upon their shares on the 5th January last amounting to upwards of £28,600.
Expenditure on completion of the canal from passing the act of Parliament in 1783 to 7th April 1793 (both inclusive) examined and allowed in the company’s journal amount to £204,770-12s-0½d and also the sum of £24,171-4s-0¼d paid by the treasurer in London (chiefly on account of interest); and the further sum of £1657-19s-2d in part on account of the steam engine at Thames Head making the sum of £230,599-15s-2¾d.
Amount of tonnage received as per proprietors ledger from the commencement of the Navigation entered in coal ledger 3rd October 1791= £1420-15-6¾d
Edward Loveden Esq for tonnage = £354-14s-8½d
Oxford Commissioners for ditto = £67-11s-5½d
Commissioners of the River Thames Upper District for amount of tonnage at Siddington = £837-7s-0¼d.
Brimscombe to Wallbridge tonnage as per coal Ledger, Folio 12 , from April to November 1790 as per Richard Adamson & Co = £1044-14s-10¼d.
Total £6725-3s-7¼d.
Tables of tonnage taken between Wallbridge and Brimscombe and at Brimscombe Port, Siddington, Cricklade and Kempsford.
Abstract Viz
To tonnage from Wallbridge Wharf £1282-2-7½
To ditto from Brimscombe Port £4146-8-3¾
To ditto from Siddington £60-13-7
To ditto from Cricklade £29-4-8¾
To ditto from Kempsford £272-7-3½
To ditto from sundry accounts £3725-3-7¼
Total £9516-0-1¾
By amount and credits in ledger in tonnage account to the 30 March 1793 inclusive £9725-9s-11¼d, less debits of tonnage account to the same time £209-9s-9½d, net £9516-0s-1¾d
17,000 tons of coal imported at different wharfs from Lady Day 1792 to Lady Day 1793.
Names and addresses of proprietors and numbers of shares held by them according to Mr Stevenson the treasurer according to the transfer book.
Preceding reports read and approved
Same committee elected.
Tables of tonnage taken between Wallbridge and Brimscombe and at Brimscombe Port, Siddington, Cricklade and Kempsford.are available at https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk/file/561/ts-tonnages-collected-1793/
A list of the proprietors in 1793 is available at https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk/file/562/ts-proprietors-1793/
