28 Feb to 5 Mar 1800
Advance allowance to Thomas Chapman, Captain of Swansea schooner.
Lease of wharf at Lechlade to be obtained from Mr Golding, £12.12 per annum.
Increased charge for freight to and from Stourport and Worcester to Brimscombe, to and from Brimscombe to Bristol, Newport to Framilode.
Increase in wages of wharfmen and watchmen.
General increase in freights.
Samuel Bird, boatbuilder to Company at the Bourne yard – salary £800 per annum, in lieu of present wages, 2s 8d per day. No more than two apprentices at a time.
Order for purchase of 2000 feet of oak and 500 feet of elm timber.
Mr Sills to engage a proper person to conduct a rope yard at the Bourn Yard and that Samuel Bird do superintend the manufacture of cordage there.
Night watchman at Bourne yard.
Order to purchase Thames boat, 90 tons, for use between London and Lechlade.
Supply of coal from Llanhyddle Company at Newport.
Bounty on coal to Burford, Wantage, Witney and Farringdon.
