Minutes, Thu 6 Aug 1835

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Thu 6 Aug 1835

Summary

Maintenance: Kempsford Wharf House repairs not done; Lower Lock Gates at Inglesham done; Eisey Lock brick work partly repaired; Latton Lock Lower Gate repairs not done; Marston Round House not pulled down. Tenant’s offer of £5 a year accepted.
Bridge at Thames Head. No alterations in roads.
Daneway Bridge. Catchpool made
Deeds not received from Mr Bevin.
Mr Denyer to advertise the premises lately occupied by Mr George.
Capels Mill Bridge. Land for catchpool.
Long Shed. Reduction and repairs done.
Engine Beam repaired.
Masons: side walls of Daneway upper and second lock repaired; Cowcombe wall rebuilt; Chalford Bell pond new waste and feeding weirs; Brimscombe, end of shed rebuilt to allow wagon communication with upper part of wharf; Brimscombe, decayed part of front of warehouses restored; Bourne Yard, parts of house; Clowes or Red Lion Lock, new feeding weir; Inglesham, Siddington, Daneway, new lock gates; Breast work, gates, sills, paddles; Sapperton, three new sills, Brimscombe, roof of shed.
Navigators: mud cleansed.
Daneway, part of summit level unfinished.
Siddington Sill, low water level.
Inglesham Wharf, wall to be taken down to allow barges to pass.
Lechlade wharf repairs to house and gates, Clerk to report on the state of Mr Protheroe’s tenancy.
Chivers, engine-man and blacksmith to receive ten pounds for good conduct and loss of cow and to observe rise or fall of water during working of steam engine.
Decision on plan and estimate for reducing size of locks deferred.
Mr Richards building house on Cirencester branch with access by towing path only.
Stones to be erected where boundaries are not well defined.
Company to discontinue wharf at Thames Head. Mr Parker may place person there for his trade.
Griffins Bridge. Denyer to obtain estimate for rebuilding with stone and iron.
Strip of land at Chalford, claim abandoned.
Mr George to pay fair rent for Company warehouses on the Island at Brimscombe.
Mr Ballinger and Company to give up land at Chalford to widen and improve road.
Mr Parker’s tonnage account to be settled by 15 September.
Mr Parker, having failed to produce certificates of disposal of salt, to pay full tonnage when passing Brimscombe Port. Drawback to be repaid on producing requisite certificates.
Work on cutting in Mr Gordon’s meadow should continue. Observations on increased quantity of water produced to be made.
Mr Jones unable to continue his observations of leakage of the summit level through illness.
Tunnel arch fallen in two places.
Mr George’s agreement on wharfage not to extend to grain.

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