Tue 2 Jul 1799
Mr Alnutt at Marlow to mark and number Company’s Thames boats.
Mr Worthington to receive list of heavy articles to be conveyed from London to Manchester, Liverpool etc at reduced freight
Contract with Mr Jones of Newport for 2000 tons of coal. Mr John Baker of Brimscombe to take 500 tons. Mr Morgan Parry, Clerk to Newport Canal Company to superintend loading of Company’s vessels there.
Supply of smith’s coal from Bristol to be replaced by small coal from Vaughan’s & Jones’s mines at Newport.
Thomas Bagnall allowed advance of 3s a week.
Agreed that 6d a week extra per ton be allowed for haulage from Framilode up the Severn in cases of contrary wind, to avoid cargoes being delayed.
Boat builders in Bourne yard allowed 3s a day, March to November, 2s 8d in the winter months, and no apprentices to be taken on without special order of Committee.
New open dock to be made at Bourne yard under direction of James Webb and Samuel Bird, estimate £102 15 3.
Mr Skey to transmit the Company’s business at Stourport.
Mr Bradfield to question farmers around Abingdon re orders for coal ashes from London at times when upward freight is scarce
