Thu 26 May 1814
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Common seal to be affixed to the following
‘Know all men by these presents that we the Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation proprietors of two hundred shares in the North Wilts Navigation do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint John Disney of Lincolns Inn in the county of Middlesex to be our proxy and in our name to vote and to give our assent or dissent to any business matter or thing relating to the North Wilts Navigation or undertaking which shall be mentioned and proposed at any meeting ……. According to his opinion and judgement.
(Seal attached.)
Ordered that all orders, resolutions and regulations respecting rates and duties payable for housage, wharfage or cranage upon iron, iron stone, coals lime or other goods are repealed and revoked. The rates to be demanded are shown in the attached table..
The rates for wharfage exclude a person to take account of the goods, otherwise the rates for housage will be charged. If goods remain in a warehouse or on a wharf belonging to the company for more than seven days, the same rate of housage and wharfage will be charged for the whole week if entered upon. Goods and merchandize weighing 30 cwt or more shall be charged in addition for cranage 1 penny for every 1cwt above 30 cwt and under 50 cwt and if 50 or more, two pence per cwt for every cwt above 30.
The company is not responsible for any loss or damage to merchandize or damage to vessels by the breaking of a crane.
Ordered that all rates and duties payable to and drawback on the following be repealed and revoked; Coal, iron, salt ores, salt rock, limestone, chalk, crates of pottery, crates of black glass, timber, flint, brick, stone, clay, copper, brass, and tin, and tin, plates, lead, spelter, and pot metal, window glass, and plate glass
That all grain flour, malt, beans and peas going westward and passing a distance of twelve miles or less shall be liable to pay the full tonnage rate of three pence per ton per mile and if passing more than twelve miles shall pay three shillings per ton and no more for the whole distance provided that any grain, flour, malt, beans and peas passing from Cirencester to Bristol shall pay two shillings per ton and no more.
That all wall stone being the produce of the quarries on the summit level passing Siddington Lock to the eastward shall pay one penny per ton per mile only when the water is higher than three feet three inches on Siddington Stop sill.
That a drawback of two shillings per ton shall be allowed on all Anchors, anchor palms, allum, brass, brass shruff, Barilla, box wood copper copperas, colours raw, dye woods uncut, deals, deals, hides raw, bar and pig iron, iron ware, ivory black, lead pig and sheet,mahogany, molasses, ochre yellow and red, oil, pitch, pottery in crates, spades and shovels, spelter, stone, saltpetre raw, sulphur raw, spurnac, sugars raw, tin and tinplate, tar turpentine, tallow, timber solid and converted, woad, wine going to or coming from Bristol, Cardiff, Gatcombe, Lydney, Newport, Newnham, or the River Wye, to or from any place below Abingdon on the River Thames, respectively and passing the whole length .
That a drawback of two shillings per ton shall be allowed upon all pig and bar iron going from Stourport to Reading or any place below the on the River Thames and passing the whole length of the canal.
Tonnage Rates listed in minutes are recorded in https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk/file/559/ts-tonnage-rates-1814/
