Mon 28 Jun 1819
Meeting at Brimscombe Port
Mr Cox of Oxford applied for a portion of the Bourne Yard and the house late Dimmocks for establishing a coal yard. To be let on the following terms viz; Pay £14 for the house and gardens and threepence per ton wharfage for every ton of coal which he carries past or lays upon the yard. To pay the company for 3000 tons certainly and if he carries 4000 tons or more to pay threepence per ton for 4000 tons but no more. A stone wall to be erected to partition off the above yard from that used for boat building. The expense to be borne by the company.
In consequence of the delays made by persons trading on the canal in the payment of tonnages, no credit to be given in future for tonnage or wharfage on coals or more than three months running account. Six weeks credit allowed on the tonnage of goods or merchandize carried to or from London and then only on sufficient security.
Resolved that the Salt Warehouse on the wharf at Brimscombe Port occupied by Mr Baker be raised to correspond with the adjoining one and when complete an increased rent be charged.
Warehouse to be built on the Latton wharf not exceeding the size of the Brimscombe Port warehouse occupied by Mr Miller.
The stable at Inglesham to be taken down and the materials thereof to be taken to Siddington to be used in the erection of a carpenters shop and the carpenter to be employed there in lieu of Thames Head heretofore.
Mr Watts be allowed a cart way thro’ the garden at Wallbridge wharf as tenant to the company paying £1.1s yearly for the same. Mr Watts making the requisite fence and engaging that all coal goods and wares used in his trade be brought to the company wharf.
Mr Denyer to pay Mr Dimmock the sum of forty guineas for the buildings erected by him and left at the Bourne Yard late in his occupation.
Several trespassers on the towing path continue in violation of the notices given to the parties. Peremptory letter to be sent indicating prosecutions will be forthwith.
Selling price of coal at Lechlade be reduced as follows and continues until Mr Denyer sees fit to raise it: Bilston from 31s to 29s per ton, Hard Forest 25s to 23s, Newport 27s to 26s, Soft Forest 23s to 21s, To be advertised in the Oxford Journal
Tonnage upon unhewn stone produced at the summit level be raised one halfpenny per ton per mile.
Proprietors of the Bell Inn at Chalford be allowed the use of the footpath from his premises to the towing path upon his paying annually 2s 6d.
Mr Charles Jones to visit and inspect the line of the canal from Siddington to Inglesham once every week and as much after as his attention in other places will allow.
Byelaws to be added.
No boat or vessel be allowed an iron guard on her bows or sides of greater thickness than one quarter of an inch nor be allowed to pass any lock or be navigated along with a square head or stern or any projection on the sides or bottom or be constructed in any respect as to damage locks, bridges, masonry, banks, lining, puddling, or other works or may be prevented passing any lock or navigating the canal with any bargeman.
That all boats or vessels navigated on this canal shall be gauged on their sides in three places viz at the stem, stern, and centre of the side and marked accordingly in each place and that the agent at Brimscombe be employed to put all boats and vessels in dock to ascertain the truth of such marks or gaging should he doubt the accuracy of the same.
But that no charge be made to the owner of the boat for dockage unless they are found faulty. And that such marks or gauging be at equal distance of three inches between the places where they shall be affixed.
All boats or vessels not so marked shall be liable to pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings nor less than twenty shillings.
