Mon 30 Dec 1776
Extraordinary meeting to agree an advertisement in the Gloucester Journal, notifying the public that wharfage will not need to be paid on coal at Bristol Road wharfs.
‘Whereas attempts have been already made to enhance the price of coals that are brought up the Stroudwater Canal - in order therefore to prevent such impositions on the public and to the end that the poor as well as the manufacturers may have coals delivered to them on as cheap terms as possible - Notice is hereby given to those who now do or may intend selling coals on the present wharfs at the road leading from Gloucester to Bristol that all coals sold to wagons at a price not exceeding 12s 6d per ton shall be free of wharage and all sold above that price shall pay 1s per ton wharfage for the same.’
At a Meeting (Extraordinary) of the Committee held on the 30^th Day of December 1776 at the George Inn in Stroud
Present: Thomas Baylis, Durley Wintle, John Hollings, Benjamin Grazebrook, Freame Arundell.
Ordered that the following Advertisement be Inserted in the next Glocester Journal:
Whereas Attempts have been already made to enhance the Price of Coals that are brought up the Stroudwater Canal, in Order therefore to prevent such Impositions on the Publick, and to the End that the poor as well as the Manufacturers may have Coals delivered to them on as Cheap Terms as Possible, Notice is hereby given to those who now do, or may Intend Selling Coals on the present Wharfs at the Road leading from Glocester to Bristol That all Coals Sold to Waggons at a price not exceeding twelve Shillings and Six pence per Ton Shall be free of Wharffage, and all Sold above that Price Shall pay One Shilling per Ton Wharffage for the same.
