Tue 23 Apr 1805
Meeting at the house of John Stevenson Salt, Lombard Street London.
Following bounties to be allowed out of the tonnage of coal passing along the canal from the 1st May to the 1st November. Viz;
Lechlade Wharf: On Bilston Coal proper certificates being produced of the same having been sold to Highworth, Farringdon, and other places not less than nine miles from the wharf and not being in the line of the canal. Two shillings per ton of 20cwt. On Newport Coal under the same regulations and to the same places; one shilling and sixpence per ton.
At Cricklade Wharf: On Bilston and Newport Coal proper certificates being produced of the same having been sold to any place less than six miles distance from the wharf and not being on the line of the canal; one shilling and six pence per ton.
The same allowance to be made to all importers or purchasers of coal at Brimscombe Port upon the production of the certificates required as above.
Committee elected.
