Tue 26 Apr 1796
Meeting at Brimscombe Port House
Mr Sam Smith to collect and arrange all the conveyances, leases, contracts, bargains and receipts for lands or buildings and copies of all verdicts of the commissioners belonging to the company.
The following elected as a committee: Sir Edward Littleton Bart, Edward Loveden Esq, Chris Chambers, Lowbridge Bright, John Chalie Esq, Mr Carter, Mr James Black, Rev. Doctor Disney, Robert Rolleston, Brownlow Bate Esq., Matthew Chalie, Lancelot Shadwell, SJohn Hayes Pettit.
Company to ask holders of mortgages who are asking for £10 per share payment of interest to exchange the same for bonds of the same amount. If this was refused, the committee to take this into consideration when assembling the information about securities.
Tonnage to be reduced passing on this canal to the rates shown in the attached table.
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Revised tonnage rates:
https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk/file/558/ts-tonnage-rates-1796/
