Thu 24 Aug 1775
Special General Meeting
The question was put whether to apply to Parliament to procure further powers for making the Stroudwater Navigable or for a new act for cutting a new canal from Framilode Lock to Wallbridge. Passed unaminously.
Also asked whether the directors should put this plan into action. Passed unanimously.
Signatories noted the amount of new money they would supply. Thomas Baylis and John Gardner £1000 each. Durley Wintle, John Butt and Joseph Wathen pledged £500 each.
At a General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroud Navigation held by Adjournment & Advertized in the Glocester Journal at the George Inn in Stroud this 24^th Day of August 1775
The Question was putt
Whether it is the Opinion of this Meeting that an Application should be made to Parliament at the next Sessions for an Amendement, and to procure further Powers to the Present Act for making the Stroud Water Navigation or for a New Act if it shall be thought Convenient & necessary to effect it by a New Canal from the Framiload Lock to Walbridge.
It passed Unanimously in the Affirmation.
The 2^d Question
Whether it is the Opinion of this Meeting that the Present Committee of Directors shall be Impowered to carry the preceding Resolution into Execution.
Passed Unanimously in the Affirmative.
We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do agree to the above Proposition on behalf of ourselves and of those who have desired us to assent for them.
W^m Dallaway for himself & for his two Daughters: £300
Edm^d Clutterbuck: 200
Edm^d Clutterbuck for Nath^ l Perks: 200
Edm^d Clutterbuck for Dan^l Clutterbuck: 100
Tho^s Baylis, & for M^r John Gardner: 1000, 1000
J Winchcombe: 500
J Winchcombe for Jo Cripps: 200
S Bowyer: 100
& for Sam^l Peach: 100
Thomas Crozier Arundell: 200
Timothy Lewis: 100
Timothy Lewis for Bathurst (F) Lewis: 100
Timothy Lewis for George (E )Lewis: 100
John Kemmett: 200
Jos. Wathen: 500
Jos. Wathen for Will^m Wathen, Jn^o Billingly,
Coney & Wilson: 900
Durley Wintle: 500
& for Charles Page: 200
Rich Hall: 100
W^m Seville Yon^g: 200
John Priddey: 100
John Butt: 500
William Turner: 100
Abra^m Walbank: 100
Rich Hall for M^rs Ann Harper: 200
George Sumner: 100
W. Bowyer: 100
W^m Sevill (Jun^r): 200
Tho^s Heart: 200
W^m Dallaway for Joseph Baddome: 300
W^m Dallaway for Susanna Dallaway: 100
W^m Dallaway for Nath^l Clissold: 100
Abra^m Walbank for T F Clark: 100
Abra^m Walbank for Jam^s Dallaway: 200
Abra^m Walbank for Hannah Beale: 200
Abra^m Walbank for W^m Hopton: 100
J. Jones: 200
Rob^t Ellis: 100
Nat^l Jones: 100
Jn^o Cambridge: 200
Tho^s White: 700
T Arundell: 300
Benj^n Grazebrook: 600
Rich^d Gabb: 100
Thomas Jones: 100
W^m Dallaway for Tho^s Gibson: 400
W^m Dallaway for Tho^s Bradbury Winter: 400
Jn^o (?) Colborne: 300
Thomas Colborne: 200
Thomas Colborne for A Grey: 200
Ja^s Croome: 300.
Ordered that the following Bills be Paid £ s d
To M^r Underwood: 33..2..7
M^r Charles Cynderby: 2..9..10
The Stone Hallers to Griffith Cooper: 36..0..0
Griffith Coopers Bill: 17..10..2
Rich^d Hall: 31..0..7
M^r Kemmett: 1..14..1
Edward Keene: 27..19..9
M^r Rich^d George his Bill: 120..3..9
[Total] £270..16..9.
Gave a Bill to M^r Ben Grazebrook on M^r Jn^o Colborne for the Above Purposes Two hundred & Seventy Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Nine Pence.
Gave a Bill to M^r Ben Grazebrook on M^r Jn^o Colborne for One hundred and Sixty Pounds to be Accountable for.
Adjourned this Meeting to this Day fortnight Sept^r 7^th 1775 at five oClock in the afternoon at the George Inn in Stroud.
